96 MR. Mc. ENERY ON THIS SUBJECT. 
conclusions are deduced. It was imagined from 
Mr. Mc. Enery’s mode of answering, that his theory 
had been shaken by the evidence afforded by his 
own eyesight, whereas, in point of fact the question 
had been put without reference to circumstantial 
detail, and the perfect answer to it which I shall 
here furnish out of a letter from that gentleman to 
me on the subject, will rather shew, that a blow 
has been levelled against the opponents of the 
Buckland doctrine, which they will find it difficult 
to parry. To Mr. Mc. Enery, I am under great 
obligation for the kindness and unreservedness of 
the communication which here follows, and I doubt 
not, that the public will duly estimate its scientific 
import. 
“‘T have found human bones, and works of art, 
“such as pottery and articles of flint, such as 
“arrows, knives, and axes, fabricated of silex, 
“* beneath the stalagmitic crust, and in association 
“‘ with the relics of fossil mammalia, but decidedly 
“‘ under such circumstances as left no doubt on my 
“ mind of their having been introduced subsequently 
** to the fossil bones. My opinion is, that the ground 
“ or crust; has been in several places broken up for 
“‘ the admission of human bodies belonging to the 
* aborigines, who made this cavern their dwelling, 
“(in the absence of better accommodation) or 
“hiding place from which they sallied forth with 
“the rude weapons in their hands (that they had 
“fabricated there, of flint, stone, and bone, the 
“ sreat laboratory of which was near the principal 
“‘ mouth) in pursuit of game. In some cases, their 
“‘ dead were covered up with the materials thrown 
“up from the pit, (namely, red loam charged with 
“fossil bones, rounded and angular stones, &c.) 
“‘ mixed with fragments of a rude pottery, and their 
“ primitive weapons. In other places the bodies 
““had been burnt and the ashes enclosed in ums, 
