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dead near it ; and the well-known habits of his representatives 
of our day have led us to expect all this from him. When, 
sowerer, we turn to the breccia, a very different spectacle 
awaits us. We meet with no trace era of his presence, 
operated, not a coprolite to mark as saa as a visit. Can it be 
doubted that had he then occupied our country he would have’ 
taken up his abode in our cavern? Need we hesitate to regard 
this entire absence of all traces of so decided a cave-dweller as 
a proof that he kad not yet made his advent in Britain? Are 
we not compelled to believe that man formed part of the Devon- 
shire fauna long before the hyzena did? Is there any method 
of escaping the conclusion that pine the era of the Breccia 
and that of the Cave-earth it was possible for the hyena to 
reach Britain ?—in other words, that the last vee nents state 
of our country occurred during that interval? I confess that, 
in the present state of the evidence, I see no escape; ahd that 
the conclusion thus forced on me compels me to believe also 
that = eke men of Kent’s Hole were interglacial, if not 
pregla 
The. ‘olla table will serve to show at one view the co 
ordinations and theoretical conclusions to which the facts of 
ents Cavern have led me, as stated briefly in the foregoing 
remarks, ‘T'he table, it will be seen, consists of two divisions, 
separated with double Be crc lines. The hii or left hand, 
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orizons, and tholk sotcaidiuaial continuity throug 
columns denotes oe y. Thus, to take an exeuiple 
from the two columns headed “ nbebsicenad? and “ Danish- 
Bog,” in the second division: the horizontal “og passing con- 
sions! through both, under the words “Iron” and “ Beech,” 
is intended to suggest that the “Iron Age’ of Western Europe 
and the “Beech” zone of the Danish Bogs take us back about - 
equally far into antiquity; whilst the position of the line under 
the word “ Bronze” indicates that the, ‘‘ Bronze age” (still of 
Western Europe) take us back from the ancient margin of the 
Beech era, through the whole of that of the Peduneulated Oak, 
and about half- -way through the era of the Sessile Oak; and so 
on in all other cases. 
