a Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



This, at its southern end, has the vaulted roof, the upper stalagmite having 

 there fallen, and its wrecks were found under six feet of sand. 



Where the gallery of the ] rish Elk branches off, opposite the above orifice, 

 a very deep bed of sand occurred, which contained a surprising assemblage 

 of young and old Reindeers' remains, down to the low level of nine feet below 

 the upper stalagmite. Near them had been a swallow-hole, and it seemed as 

 if bodies of Reindeer had been drawn down by the vortex of water to this 

 vicinity. 



The angular space between the two galleries (of the Elephants' Teeth 

 and of the Irish Elk) had a horizontal vacant area, at a high level, in which 

 stands the upper stalagmite sheet, crossing both these galleries as well, within 

 a few inches of the irregular roof. It is found by Professor Seymour to be 

 practically on the same level as the upper stalagmite in the distant parts of 

 the cave, and marks the horizon of its earliest sand-bed of which we have 

 evideni I In this bed, now gone, the stalagmite must have been formed. 

 As w,- worked northward we found teeth and bones of Mammoth, Hya?na, 

 and Wolf in the sand, which closed up to the upper stalagmite, and after 

 that an earthfall stopped our progeea In this gallery, as well as in that of 

 the Aged t'.nni. - a bed of pale, barren sand, about 18 inches deep 



above the bone-sand, and this deepened at the swallow-hole above raen- 

 bioned. 



The GALLERY i>f tub Irish Elk has an irregular, slightly-vaulted roof over 

 the upper stalagmite (which remains for 13 feel , and perpendicular sides 

 until we du- down, where we found t ; 1 in Y form. At six to seven 



feet from the corner of the last gallery we found a large limestone block from 

 tw.. feel i" three feet below the surface of the sand, with bones of Hyaena and 

 M mimoth. If this block fell at any time from the mof it must have done so 

 before the sheel of nppei ite (which is still above) was formed. This 



would tend I hat the Band and bones among which it lay were more 



ient than the upper stalagmite ; but in the last two galleries the bone- 

 Band lay over the fallen fragments of the upper stalagmite. Sandstone 

 cobbles wei>- found between the pale upper sand and the coarse, dark bone- 

 I. There were various bones II ■ ua, Mammoth. Keindeer, and Irish 

 Elk. Of the latter we got a piece of the beam of one antler, apparently 

 gnawed and .. 



The irregular DIAGONAL GALLERY or chamber on the left or south yielded 

 more of the above bones. 



Al IS feet the Gallery ol the lush Elk is intersected by a narrow north- 

 and-south passage, just where it- direct course is barred by an earthfall (20). 

 This we called the Gallery of thb Vertebra, from a cervical vertebra of a 



