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other evidence has since been found, conclusive as tu this. I can 
but criticise that which has been adduced ; but I will say that if 
such has been found and been so long withhe d, while there are 
so many eh! interested, and so many who would like to verify 
at once and on the groun nd the statements made , then I do hold 
that there noe not _— shown that love of full investigation 
sega is the soul of sci 
cracks and joints, and carries off the rock dissolved in water, 
which contains a little acid caught by the falling rain or drawn 
from decomposing plants. The fissures thus enlarged into the 
gaping chasms called “ swallows’ holes,” the “ katabothra” of the 
and subterranean courses. hheae e, when ta Bee: es lower tore 
are soon left dry, and offer to prowling beasts of prey a safe 
retreat, and often man availed himself = aa. as testify the 
Adullamites and Troglodytes of every a 
From such a cave up in the crags of ae some evidence is 
adduced that man existed far back into Glacial times, _ this, 
perhaps, is the best case that has been urged. ere a large 
group of animals, such as occur elsewhere along with man, an 
more doubtfully traces of man himself, were found in beds 
overlapped by Glacial clay hick had sealed up the mouth of the 
vast den in which these relics lay. This excavation I have 
watched myself at intervals from the commencement, and Ih hold 
that as the cliff fell back by wet or frost, and limestone fragments 
fell over the cave mouth, with the came also masses of ‘ok 
yielded to the ebeeer waste, so that it siiaee ns waa 
the part immediately above cave. t ide the mu 
water ~_— a after flood, held back by all this clay, filled 
every crevice and the intervals between the fallen limestone 
rock, while sil —- was the open talus of angular fragments 
nown as 
These are t the mon important cases that I know where man has 
been vated to Glacial or inter-Glacial times ; but all, it seem® 
to me, quite inconclusive. On the contrary, ‘there is muc 5 
them, and much besides pointing the other way. In support ° 
which opinion I will now offer some independent evidence, show- 
ing that some similar beds with man and the beasts tha 
found with him in earliest times can be proved to be P 
Gistiasl. * * * 
* Tiddeman, Brit. Assoc. Reports, 1870-8. 
