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validity of the doubts thrown upon the previously prevailing 
(Phil. Tr 
the face of it lay several fine relics of the ordinary cave mam- 
mals, including an entire left lower jaw of Hyena spelea replete 
with teeth, but which had nevertheless failed to arrest the 
attention of the incurious workmen who exposed it, or of any 
one else. 
Soon after the resumption of the work in 1861, the remnant 
of the outer wall of the fissure was removed, and caused the 
fall of an incoherent part, of the dike, which it had previously 
supported. Amongst the débris the workmen collected some 
hundreds of specimens of skulls, jaws, teeth, vertebrae, portions 
of antlers, and bones, but no indications of man. Mr. Wolston, © 
the proprietor, sent some of the choicest specimens to the 
British Museum, and submitted the remainder to Mr. Ayshford 
Sanford, F.G.S., from whom I Jearn that the principal portion 
of them are relics of the cave hyena, from the os aa whelp 
to very aged animals. With them, however, were remains of 
bear, reindeer, ox, hare, Arvicola ratticeps, A. agrestis, wolf, fox, 
and part of a single maxillary with teeth not distinguishable 
from those of Canis isatis. To this list I may add rhinoceros, 
of which Mr. Wolston showed me at least one ; : 
From the foregoing undesirably, but unavoidably, brief 
