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north are deposited on their sides. On the other hand, it is 

 difficult to account for the transposition of the bodies of the 

 mammoths, without injury, to great distances. 



M. Brandt, adopting an intermediate view, says, " The 

 numerous examples of mammoths found erect, combined with 

 the idea that those which have preserved their skin and 

 hair without injury could not have been carried along by 

 water, induced me to communicate to M. Humboldt the 

 opinion that the carcases in good preservation had been buried 

 in an alluvial deposit (vase) in the locality in which they were 

 found; that they had subsequently been covered by fresh 

 layers of fluviatile deposit, and frozen in the autumn. A 

 rigorous winter succeeding completed the process, and the 

 frigid alluvium had preserved them against thaw from their 

 time to ours. - ''' M. Brandt considers that the climate must 

 have been warmer to have allowed the growth of sufficient 

 vegetable food in Northern Siberia, but not temperate, or the 

 mammoth carcases could not have remained frozen. 



It is hoped that the researches of M. Schmidt will solve 

 some of these doubts. 



AKCEL330LOGIA. 



Mr. J. T. Blight, one of the most distinguished of the Cornish 

 antiquaries of the present day, has recently communicated to the 

 Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society the result of 

 excavations in the Treveneage Cave, in the parish of St. Hilary, 

 near Penzance. This cave consists of a series of subterranean 

 chambers, which were first discovered, about twenty years ago, by 

 the removal of some of the roofing stones in the course of agricul- 

 tural labours. In the earlier part of last October, an attempt was 

 made to resume these former explorations, and they were continued 

 during the rest of the month with considerable success. They have, 

 as far as now carried, brought to light a passage about forty-five 

 feet long, four feet wide at the base, and three at the top, and four 

 feet nine inches high. The whole is walled with dry masonry, the 

 stones being carefully placed so as to receive the large slabs thrown 

 across to form the roof, which is still perfect in the easternmost part 

 to a length of twelve feet six inches. Within a foot of the extremity 

 of this passage, a doorway, one foot six inches high by two feetfour 

 inches wide, the jambs and lintel of which are each formed of one 

 stone, leads into a cell cut in the clay, with an arched roof, but 

 without any coating of stones. It is of an elliptical form, fifteen 

 feet long by six feet broad, and only four feet high. At right angles 

 to this doorway, and at the end of the passage, is another door, 

 about the same height, but only one foot three inches in breadth. This 

 leads into a chamber which, when first opened, was found to be com- 



