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such as Rodents. He inferred that the cave, in its present form, and with 
its present floor, had not been tenanted by these animals. The vast num- 
ber of Hippopotami uel that the physical condition of the country 
must have wee very different at no very distant geological period from 
what obtains now. He considered that all deposits above the bone-breccia 
ad been accumulated up to the roof by materials washed in from above, 
through numerous crevices of flues in the limestone, and that the upper- 
most Ges, § consisting of the breccia of shells, bone-splinters, siliceous 
objects, burnt clay, bits of charcoal, and coprolites of Hyena, had been 
cemented to the roof by stalagmitic infiltration. The entire condition of 
the large fragile Helices proved that the effect had been produced by the 
tranquil agency of water, as distinct from any tumultuous action. There 
portions agglutinated to the roof, The wreck of these ‘ejecta was Vaible 
in the patches of “cinere impastate,” containing fossil bones below the 
mouth of the cavern, That a long period must have operated in the ex- 
tinction of the Hyzna, Cave-lion, and other fossil one is certain; but 
no index remains for its measurement. 
The author would call the careful attention of cautious geologists to 
the inferences,—that the Maccagnone Cave was’ filled up to the roof 
land-shells, coprolites o and human objects was agglutinated to 
the roof by the infiltration of water holding: lime in solution; that su 
sequently, and within the human period, suc t amount of chan. 
three long galleries meeting or intersecting one another at right angles, 
Numerous bones of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Bos, Equus, Cervus tarandus, 
Ursus speleus, and Hyena have been found; and several ies 
ge e in 
8 composed of water-worn chalk dl igh ee is igh Sa fie i i above 
it is a thin band of sand, surmounted by sandy beds (3 feet 6 in.), and 
brick-earth (11 feet 9in.). In ls we ple: the remains of elephant, 
horse, and deer have been found, with land and fresh-water shells of re- 
cent species. From the gravel Mr. Flower dug out a flint-implement, 
