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THE GEOLOGIST. 
embodying Mr. Wliidbcy's slatniicnt, read before tlie Royal Society, February 
27, 1817, and printed in tlie " Piiilosopliical Transactions" tor that year. 
In November, 1820, Mr. Wiiidbey discovered a second ossiferous cavern, 
and sent up the bones found in it to Sir Everard Home, stating that they 
" were lately found in a cavern one foot high, eighteen feet wide, and twenty 
feet long, lying on a tiiin bed of dry clay at the Dottom ; the cavern was sur- 
rounded by com])act limestone, about eiglit feet above high-water mark, fifty- 
five feet below the surface of tlie rock, one Inmdred and seventy-four yards 
from the original face of tlie quarry, and about one hundred and twenty yards, 
in that direction, from the spot where the former bones were found in 181 G."* 
He then goes on to repeat, almost verbatim, liis reasons for believing that 
the cavern never could have had iiny connection with the surface. 
The bones in this second consignment were, like their predecessors, described 
by Sir Everard Home before the Royal Society, Eebruary 8, 1821, and his 
paper was printed in the " Philosophical Transactions" for that year. 
In 1822 a third bone-cave was found at Oreston, and the fossils sent to 
London ; on this occasion Mr. Wiiidbey forwarded tliem to Mr. John Barrow, 
with a plan and statement descriptive of their situation. 
Surface of Countiy. 
/ 
Level of Ground at the Foot of the Rock. 
High-water at Spring-tide. 
Scale of 40 feet. 
Lign. 1. — Longitudinal Section of the Caverns discovered at the Breakwater Quarries, at 
Oreston, in 1822, by Joseph Whidbey, Esq., F.R.S. Reduced from pi. vi., " Pliilosophical 
Transactions," 1823. 
[The dark tint in the section marks the places were the bones were found.] 
"The height," he says, "of the rock, or quarry, is about ninety-three feet 
above the top of high-water of spring-tides, which is shown in the sketcii, to- 
gether with a section of the caves where the bones were found. The part 
where they lay is tinged with red in the caves marked a and b. The cave a 
* Philosophical Transactions, 1817, pp. 176-7. 
