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Be this as it may, it is certain that no arrow-head, or worked flint, or other stone 
of any kind was so situated. The antler of the rein-deer was found lying on 
the floor or cake of stalagmite which covered the bed of bone-earth with all its 
contents, and all the worked flints lay at the base of this bone-bed, and therefore 
at a considerably lower level than the antler. 
The relics of the cave mammals, with the evidences of man's existence and 
(as I beheve) high antiquity, had all been deposited and hermetically sealed up 
before the introduction into the cavern of that fine relic of the rein-deer. 
So far as Mr. Drake's inference is concerned, this correction is unimportant, 
but it seems right to prevent, if possible, erroneous statements respecting Brix- 
ham Cavern from becoming current, especially as no authorized report on it has 
yet been given to the world. 
I am yours, &c., 
Lamoma, Torquay, June 4. W. Pexgelly. 
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M. Gaudry has communicated another interesting paper on his 
researches in Greece, in which he states that, although his researches 
in 1855 furnished him with the remains of a great number of rumi- 
nants, they never brought to light any tooth or skull belonging to 
one of the goat tribe. So in a note which M. Lartet and himself laid 
before the Academy in 1856, they stated their opinion that the 
amalth^e might be an antelope. At the present time M. Gaudry 
possesses eighteen skulls, and most of them have their posterior part 
whole, two among them being furnished with their teeth and the 
bony axes of the horns. These fossils confirm the supposition that 
the amaltliee is not a goat, but an antelope. M. Owen says that the 
grinders of the antelope are distinguished from those of the goat in 
not having interlobular columns, their covering of enamel being 
longer, and the external surface of the superior grinders having the 
furrows more marked and the depressions not so plainly limited- by 
straight longitudinal borders. M. Gaudry has remarked also that 
with goats the superior front grinders are cut at right angles, instead 
of being rounded and sinuous as with antelopes ; it seems that they 
are halves separated from the back grinders. Tljey have not any 
distinct tops like those of antelopes, so much so that one cannot mark 
the part where the enamel begins upon the shaft. These characters 
give the front grinders of the goat, seen on the external surface, a 
look which reminds one a little of the teeth of a horse. In goats the 
three front grinders are very straight, the space which they occupy is 
far from being the third of the total length of the series of grinders, 
whilst in the antelopes they attain, and sometimes go beyond, the 
third of that length. It is true that these various characters are sub- 
ject to exceptions, but at least they are more constant than those 
furnished by the horns, and certainly they are of greater generic 
value. The amalthee has not any of those characteristics enumerated 
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