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is encrusted witli thin stalactite : the cave h mostly consists of limestone, with 

 bones adhering to the sides ; the top is closed up with stone rubble. The teeth 

 and bones found in the cave a were mostly covered with dirt ; part of them 

 were lying on the dirt, and in crevices about the caves a and h. Prom the 

 cave marked a, a passage has been discovered into what I call a gallery, 

 marked c, which gallery opens iiito the face of the quarry at d. At e some 

 teeth and bones were found. The farther end of the gallery is not closed, but 

 it is not sufficiently wide for a man to creep into it. The sides of the gallery 

 consist mostly of limestone, some clay, ana stalactite. At / the gallery was 

 covered with masses, or lumps of limestone, with much clay intermixed, and in 

 general so compact that it requires gunpowder to blast it asunder — and con- 

 tinued so to the surface of the country, a height of fifteen feet as shown in the 

 sketch. 



The general state of this quarry has been found to consist of more caves, 

 filled with clay, than any other ; and nearly under the entrance of the cave, 

 where the bones were found, I have dug down through clay of so stiff and hard 

 a nature as to render it difficult to dig into it, and it continued so until I got 

 to six feet below high water, when rock again appeared, but not compact. In 

 this digging, many lumps of iron-ore were found in the hard clay. 



The distance from the cave a to the commencement of the quarry, or har- 

 bour, is two hundred and one yards ; and to the cave where the first bones 

 were found in November, 18 IG, one hundred and eighty yards in a western di- 

 rection."* 



The bones found on the occasion just mentioned, together with a smaller 

 number sent up in November, 1822, were described by Mr. Clift, in an 

 elaborate paper, read before the Royal Society, February 6, 1823, and published 

 in that year's " Philosophical Transactions." 



On the authority of Professor Owen, the ossiferous caverns and fissures of 

 Devousliire have yielded remains of the following species of mammals, namely : 



EXTINCT SPECIES. 



XJrsiis prisats 

 Ursus spel^m 

 Hyrena spelaa 

 Felis spelfp.a 

 MacJiairodiis latidens 

 Lagomi/s spelaa 

 Elephas primigenim 

 Rhinoceros tichor'uius 



Equus pUcidens 

 Asimis fossllis 

 Hippotamiis major 



Megaceros Hibernicus 

 Strongyloceros spelaus 



Cervns Bucklandi 

 Bison tninor 

 Bos longifrons 





Ke 



0 











Great cave-bear 



Ke 



0 



Ki 



G 



M 



D 



Cave-hya^na 



Ke 



0 



Ki 



G 



M 



D 



Great cave-lion 



Ke 

 Ke 



0 



Ki 





M 





Cave-pika 



Ke 













Mammoth 



Ke 





Ki 





M 





Tichorine (two-horned) 



Ke 



0 



Ki 









rliinoceros 















Fossil horse 



Ke 



0 



Ki 



G 



M 





Fossil ass, or zebra 

 Large fossil hippopo- Ke 

 tamus 



Gigantic Irish deer Ke 

 Gigantic round-antlered Ke 



deer 

 Buckland's deer 



Ki 



D 



Long-fronted ox 



Devon Ki 

 0 



0 Ki 



VOL. 11. 



* Philosophical Transactions, 1823, p, 78. 



