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same in the materials which form the staple of the deposit; in 
the occurrence of pebbles of various kinds of rock, which differ 
from those in the overlying black mould only in being less nu- 
merous; in the presence of bones in the same condition and rep- 
resenting the same species of animals; and in yielding “flint 
implements” of the same types. It will not be necessary, there- 
fore, to describe each level separately or in detail. 
e bones found below the stalagmite are heavier than those 
met with above it. This distinction isso well marked and so 
constant as to be characteristic. lt would be easy to assign 
them to their respective deposits by their specific weights alone. 
Most of those from the red loam are but little discolored, indeed 
some of them are of chalk-like whiteness. ew, however, oc- 
off, and proves 
to be a paste or — composed of loam and ecar- 
—s of lime, the latter proba 
Too 
ly derived from drip from the 
Large portions of the osseous remains occur in the forms of 
fragments and mere splinters. The identifiable parts are chiefly 
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