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THE GEOLOGIST. 
as the large quantities of charcoal found, and the numerous burnt 
stones, etc., lead to the belief that the cave had been inhabited for a 
considerable length of time ; and that fires had been burned at diffe- 
rent places the thick deposits of charcoal testify. 
The bronze implements found at H and J in fig. 1, were asso- 
ciated with a few bones, a limpet- 
shell, some mussel-shells, and a 
large quantity of charcoal, and 
were deposited in sand and gravel. 
The deposits throughout the 
cave are nearly on the same re- 
lative level, with the exception of 
the hillock already mentioned ; 
and while the greatest part of 
them have only one stalagmitic 1^ f^^t. 
C0^ ering, the hillock and a few Fig. 3. — Transverse Section at G. 
feet towards q, in fig. 1, had a open cave, 7 feet ; ^, stalagmite, 4 inches ; 
sheet under the " bone-bed," ex- ^' ^""^ S^^^^^' ^t^-' 
tending over h h, fig. 2, where it vanished, and its place was occu- 
pied by sand and pebbles, as we see in the transverse section (fig. 3). 
The " Communion Table," as it was called by the visitors to the 
cave, was a large pillar of the rock, around which the water had 
washed until it had undermined the base, when the pillar fell down, 
leaving a considerable space between its top and the roof of the cave, 
which had afterwards been partially refilled by pendulous stalactites 
from the roof, forming a junction with the stalagmitic bosses on the 
"table" (as shown at fig. 4); 
and on the top of the " table " 
there was found a tusk, seme 
bones, some large snail-shells, 
and pieces of charcoal, under an 
incrustation of stalagmite. One 
of the workmen wondering what 
thickness the incrustation had 
attained on the " table," struck . rr, * tt v, • 
, lig. 4. — Transverse Section at H, showing 
his hack into it, and exhumed -Commimion Table." e, "Communion 
the above-mentioned relics to his Table ; d, open cave, 4 feet 6 inches; c, 
no small astonishment. Perhaps stalagmite, 2 or 3 inches ; b, sand, etc., 12 
this is the first time that such a i^^^hes; a, rock, 
discovery has been made " on removing the cover." 
The appearances of the deposit at F, fig. 1, and the great thick- 
ness of the stalagmite — in places 6 and even 8 inches thick — shows that 
portion must have taken a greater length of time to form than the 
rest, which was only 2 to 4 inches, while from the absence of any 
bronze implements, I am led to consider it of more ancient date ; the 
probability also is, that bone implements would cease to be used 
when metal ones were introduced. 
The general appearance, on entering the cave before it was de- 
molished, was very interesting and grand. The fine pendent stalac- 
