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94 CAVES AT BERRY HEAD AND TORQUAY. 
subsists between the other antediluvian creatures 
and their representatives of this day,—the same 
remarkable affinity. Looking also to the wise pro- 
visions of Nature in regard of food, we see that 
these small creatures would hold a decided relation 
to the predaceous habits of the animal I have ven- 
tured to designate glutton, from its evident similarity 
to our mustelo gulo. 
Very recently, a set of bones similar to those met 
with in our other caverns, have been found in a 
cavity of the limerock at Berry Head, on the south- 
west side of Torbay, by the Rev. F. Lyte, but no 
particulars have as yet been received. I am informed 
however, that over the fossil accumulation, there 
occurred human remains, and works of human art. 
Still more recently, another deposit has been found 
near by, the bones of the elephant predominating. 
Near Torquay is a considerable cavern called 
Kent’s Hole, which has in its day drawn great 
attention from the novelty of certain facts in con- 
nexion with it, and which were laid forth to the 
public by the Rev. J. Mc. Enery. The fossil bones 
there discovered, were of the same class and cha- 
racter with those before enumerated, but it seems 
also, that in this cave were found the remains of 
man, and a variety of articles of chace and warfare, 
referrible to an ancient race of people. 
In that long period of the occupancy of this 
lsland by its primitive tribes, preceding its invasion 
by foreign nations, and before indeed, history 
recited anything concerning it, caves were adopted 
as human abodes, as places of shelter from enemies, 
and moreover, for the purpose of the burial of the 
dead; and hence, though in the immediate neigh- 
