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382 Exploration of Kent’s Cavern, Devonshire. 
teeth, which are extremely numerous. Amongst the Mammals 
represented, there are certainly the Cave-bear, Cave-lion, Cave- 
hyena, Fox, Horse (probably more than one species), Ox, seve- 
ral species of Deer, the tichorhine Rhinoceros, and Mammoth. 
Remains of the Hyzena are probably the most abundant, after 
which come those of Rhinoceros and Horse. The relics of the 
Mammoths (both molars and tusks) are those of very young in- 
dividuals. 
It has already been hinted that “flint implements” occur 
everywhere in the cave-earth mixed up with the remains of ex- 
tinct Mammals. Several of them were found in the presence of, 
and some of them by, the superintendents. Like the bones, 
a porcellanous aspect. With the exception of three, they are 
all of the kinds known as flakes—flat on one side, and more or 
less carinated on the other.. Some of them are fragments only, 
others were found broken in the deposit with the parts lying in 
contact, whilst others again are perfect. Some of the broken 
specimens of the white variety show that they are not of this 
color throughout their entire mass, but have a dark central axis 
or core. The flakes agree in character with those in the black 
overlying mould. The excepted three are of chert, and are 
worked on both sides. They were found in the second, third, 
and fourth levels; one in each. That from the second foot is 
about 42 inches long, and, where widest, 24 broad. At one end 
it tapers to a point, and narrows to no more than # of an inch 
at the other. In outline it is rudely a segment of a curvilineal 
figure, and is slightly falciform. The inner or concave margin 
is the cutting edge. Unfortunately the tip of the pointed end 
was broken off after exhumation. Those from the third and 
and ? in thickn 
the preceding two, its dimensions being 34 inches long, 24 broad, 
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