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DE. H. HICKS ON" THE 



means caused some falls to take place, necessitating a fiirtlier 

 widening of the shaft. I wrote to Prof. Hughes on several 

 occasions in June, telling him the results, and strongly urging him 

 to visit the section. Unfortunatel}^ however, he was not able to do 

 so until the work had been stopped (the grant from the British As- 

 sociation having been exhausted), and most of the section had been 

 shored up with timber for the season, to prevent further falls. We 

 were anxious that as many geologists as possible should visit the 

 section when the surface was fresh and each band distinct, knowing 

 well that a few showers of rain, by washing the soil from above over 

 the face, would blind some of the evidence ; therefore I wrote to a 

 considerable number of geologists, who I felt would be interested in 

 the subject, asking them to visit the cave if possible. Those who saw 

 the section before the ground was sloped back at the top were Mr. De 

 Ranee, Dr. Stolterforth, Mr. Shone, and Mr. Morton, and later Prof. 

 Hughes, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, and Mr. Strahan. In the bone-earth 

 at the bottom of the shaft many teeth and bones occurred ; and one 

 tooth of Rhinoceros was found six feet in front of the overhanging 

 roof of the cavern, measured from the outer edge. 



On June 28th, when Mr. G. H. Morton, P.G.S., visited the cavern, 

 one of the workmen in digging in the bone-earth turned up in our 

 presence, along with teeth of Hyaena and Reindeer, a well-worked 

 flint-flake, nearly two inches in length and half an inch wide (fig. 2). 



JFig. 2. — FUnt-flaTce found under Drift, outside the 

 covered entrance. (Xatural size.) 



It is of a white, porcellaneous appearance, like the implements which 

 we found in the Ffynnon Beuno cave ; and at the last meeting of the 

 British Association Mr. Pengelly stated that it resembled some 

 found by him in the lower deposits in Kent's Cavern. Its position 

 was about 18 inches below the lowest bed of sand, in a vertical face 

 of the section, a little outside the line of the entrance and slightly 



