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not, however, attract the attention of scientific inquirers until 
September, 1824, when Mr. Northmore visited it with the double 
any results of value 5 aiipaite: ” Mr. M’Enery, whose name 
must be forever associated with the cavern, first visited it in 
the summer of 1825. He was at that time quite pile aati 
in cavern researches; for he states that the party which had 
the cavern he “ was the last of the train, for he could not divest 
himself of certain undefinable sensations, it being his first visit 
to a scene of this nature.” _The visit was a memorable one; for, 
sion :—“ They were the first fossil teeth I had ever me and = 
hamed to own, that in an pres- 
ence of these remains I felt more of awe than joy.” He at once 
Buckland, and with ae 
Mire he at one time siiceded to publish a narrative of his 
labors and discoveries, and had made arrangements for the re- 
quisite illustrations, the intention was unfortunately aknndoned 
After his decease, it was feared that his manuscripts had been 
destroyed or lost; but after oper a variety of fortune 
they passed into the hands of Mr. Vivian of Torquay, who fro 
them compiled a Memoir which was published in 1859. 
I r. Godwin-Austen read a paper before the Geolog- 
ical Society of London, on the “Bone Caves of Devonshire,” 
ii he described the results of his investigations in Kent’s 
ole 
6 Par eas the mre of this investigation was drawn up 
* Cavern Researches. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1859. 
Am. Jouz. 8c1.—Szconp Serres, Vou. XLIII, No. 129.—Mar, 1867. 
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