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MR. H. N. DAYIES ON THE DISCOVERY OF [Aug. 1904, 



depth of over 12 feet. The deposits of the main cavern passed into 

 this branch without break, but they took a downward inclination, 



Fig. 4. — Longitudinal section of the deposits in the lateral fissure g 



(in fig. 1, p. 335). 



Scale =£ th 



[The bones shown are still in situ, and X marks the position in which the 



skull was found.] 



a = Recent accumulation of earth and stones : 6 inches. 



£»= Upper bed of stalagmite : here 5 inches thick. 



e = Cave-earth, with encrusted boulder (7/)and blocks of limestone and 



an intermediate band of calcareous deposit (e) : 3=j feet. 

 f— Lower bed of stalagmite: 6 inches. 

 #=Bed of sand and pebbles of Carboniferous Limestone and Old Red 



Sandstone : 8 to 12 inches. 

 h— Carboniferous-Limestone roof and floor. 



maintaining a certain parallelism with the floor and roof. A space 

 only just high enough to enable a man to crawl in, existed between 

 the upper surface of the drift and the roof at the entrance. About 

 12 feet within the fissure a smaller rift in the right-hand wall was 



