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crust — the " pie-crust " of Dr. Buckland. In this interval were 

 hazel-nuts, bearing tooth-marks of Bodents, together with the bones 

 of recent Frogs. With this exception, the section was the same as 

 the transverse section, fig. 2. The layers of album graecum con- 

 tained round balls, as at Kirkdale. The splinters ot bone at this point 

 began to increase in size, and became also, proportionately, more 

 numerous than the teeth. In places an infiltration of carbonate of 

 lime had cemented organic remains, stones, and matrix into one hard 

 mass. In one fragment of this breccia, now in the Brighton Museum, 

 are a tusk and a carpal of Elephas primigenius, the coronoid process of 

 the right ulna of Rhinoceros tichorliinus, and the base of the antler 

 of Cervus Guettardi * ; in another, the shaft of the radius of a Rhi- 

 noceros, side by side with the antler of Cervus Bucklandi — a second 

 variety of Beindeer ; in a third, two scapulae, an ilium, and ischium 

 of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, together with a coprolite and the lower 

 jaw of Hycena spelcea. The vertical passage F now took the" form of 

 an oblique fissure, which presented every appearance of being con- 

 nected with some rabbit-burrows vertically above it. 



2. The Passage B. — We were now at the entrance of the small 

 constricted passage B (see figs. 1 and 4), which branches off almost 



Fig. 4. — Longitudinal Section of the Passage B. 



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a. Dark-red earth. e. Red earth, containing stones 



b. Bone-bed. and a few bones. 



at right angles to the antrum. A spot a little to its right gave the 

 following section, fig. 5. 



Fig. 5. — Transverse Section of the Passage B. 



a. Roof. 



b. Red earth, containing stones and but few bones, 1 foot 



8 inches in thickness, at a distance of from 4 to 5 inches 

 from the roof, and under a crust of stalagmite. 



c. A mass of conglomerate fallen from the roof. 



d. Red earth, with irregular layers of album grsecum and 



large stones, which are a continuation of those men- 

 tioned in the previous section. 



e. Red earth, full of stones, and containing but few bones. 

 /. Floor. 



As we dug our way deeper inwards, the stalagmitic crusts became 



* I have retained this term for a variety of C. tarandus, as sanctioned by the 

 usage of Dr. Falconer, in his paper on the Grower Caves, Quart. Journ. GreoL 

 Soc. vol. vi. p. 489. 



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