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380 Exploration of Kent's Cavern, Devonshire. 
ars to consist of amber or some analogous substance; anda 
small, holed, ellipsoidal fragment of limestone, which was per- 
forated probably by some lithodomous mollusk. 
The flint-flakes are four in number, two of dark and two of 
light or white flint, the latter being the best formed. The light 
color is more or less superficial, the center being of a dark gray. 
The charred wood is very abundant. Some specimens are 
undistinguishable from prepared charcoal, whilst others are ob- 
viously nothing more than partially burnt sticks, some of them 
of considerable size. ' 
Bones are extremely numerous. They are more or less dis- 
colored, and have lost a considerable portion of their weight. 
t ma doubted whether the entire elements of any skeleton 
have been found lying together. Amongst them there are the 
relics of pig, deer, sheep, fox, wolf (?), bat, hare, rabbit, with 
smaller rodents, birds, and various kinds of fish. Some of them 
ap! to have been exposed to the action of fire. 
The land shells are principally various kinds of snail, the 
larger forms being the most prevalent. They occur in all stages 
of growth, and thus render it probable that they had established 
a colony in the cavern. Amongst the marine shells are the lim- 
pet, whelk, oyster, cockle, mussel, pecten, solen or razor-shell, 
and the internal shell of the cuttle-fish, Sepia officinalis. From 
the unrubbed condition of the last, it was probably not found cast 
ashore on the beach, but taken directly from the cephalopod to 
which it belonged. 
The source of the shells of hazel-nuts is not far to seek. 
They were no doubt obtained from the wood in which the cav- 
ern is situated, and were perhaps carried in by small animals 
whose homes were under the fallen masses of limestone where 
quite fruitless. In the breccia have been found charred wood, 
marine and land shells, and bones of various animals, some © 
which ; 
. Immediately beneath this cake we enter the red cave-loam, and 
bone, of which there are very few instances in the uppermost 
foot. In other respects the rls are the same—every where the 
