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by stalagmite, but as they were deposited in what had, not long ago, 
been the watercourse, the stalagmite had either been denuded, or 
had been prevented from forming, at that particular place, by the 
action of the stream ; the coins icere under very little cover, and might 
have been imbedded very recently. 
The stream of water through the cave has evidently changed its 
course many times since the cave was excavated to its present size, 
as we find accumulations of sand and gravel (at and G, in ground- 
plan, fig. 1), about three feet above the present water-level, and about 
two feet above the ancient watercourse (M, N). 
At a a, fig. 2, there was a hillock of angular blocks, etc. covered 
by stalagmite, and upon this stalagmitic hillock were deposited bones, 
Fig. 2. — LoxGiTUDTXAL SECTION AT F. (See Ground- Plan.) 
' — w^^^^x Ur ( i^~T^^ ^> 
30 feet. 
ft. in. 
f. Open cave 5 6 
e. Stalagmite 0 4 
d. Bone bed 12 
c. Stalagmite 0 3 
a. Angular blocks .... 2 9 
10 0 
X. Rock, limestone. 
tusks, bone knives and pins, large and small snail-shells, fragments 
of potter}^ piece of an armlet, a cockle-shell, and large quantities of 
charcoal, cemented together by calcareous matter. No sand or gravel 
was observed amongst them ; there being considerable interstices in 
some parts of the bed, plainly showing they had not been drifted 
there by water, but pointing to the conclusion that they had been j^i^r- 
posely placed there by the animals or men that inhabited the cave. 
Part of these bones, etc., formed the subject of my former paper 
above alluded to, but no manufactured bones, etc., had been found 
when it was written. 
At G, fig. 1, the bones, bone pins, tusks, pottery, and charcoal 
were found in coarse sand and smooth pebbles, and might have been 
drifted while ioi the cave, but it is not at all probable that they were 
drifted into it, for everj^ appearance connected with the deposits, such 
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