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at least were in the dark or bone-bearing sand. The animals 
represented by to-day's find were Reindeer, Bear, Mammoth, 
Hyaena, and Irish Elk, of the latter only a penultimate 
phalanx. 
August 27. — Continued our deeper excavations, working 
south until we were past the stalagmite bridge ; pale, barren 
sand again on top of a darker sand, which contained many 
bones. Power worked deep under the orifice that leads west 
into the Gallery of the Elephants' Teeth, under the stalagmite 
bridge, and found more Hyaena bones, including a jaw, with 
all the teeth much worn, corresponding with those found on 
the 8th inst. We also got several coprolites of Hyaena (?), an 
astragalus, and piece of shin-bone of Irish Elk, and three plates 
of the molar of a young Mammoth, with other bones of same. 
On the east side is a swallow-hole, near which we got, at the 
bottom of our excavation, the humerus of a young Mammoth 
and the spine of the vertebra of an old one, with other bones 
of these. 
We met with rolled or worn sandstones at all depths, also 
buried pieces of stalagmite floor nearly under the south edge 
of the bridge of this material which remains overhead. These 
once doubtless formed a continuation of it; but to the west 
side of the gallery were large pieces of a floor of brecciated 
sand, buried very deep, and evidently in situ. On a lower level 
was a dark moist or muddy, barren stratum. 
August 28.— Continued to dig in the Gallery of the Aged 
Carnivores under the south edge of the stalagmite bridge, and 
found the cranium of a large Reindeer, 7 feet 6 inches below 
the limestone roof 
We opened up the swallow-hole on the east side, and down 
in this, about 8 feet from the roof, Power found the cranium of 
a Hyaena lying loose, and the right ramus of the mandible 
perfect, except one incisor. A black wing-bone of a bird was 
also found down this swallow-hole. Slabs of limestone, the 
dividing walls of galleries that existed before the stalagmite 
bridge was formed, were found buried in the sand, and several 
worn sandstones were in and about the swallow-hole. 
August 29. — Continued to work south. There were about 
12 to 18 inches of sand, and beneath this were buried the 
wrecks of the upper stalagmite floor which had fallen. The 
