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roof fell in, and thus precluded further research. I had not 
an opportunity of visiting it before this catastrophe took 
place, so that my own personal observations are confined to 
an examination of the remains in the Montrose Museum, 
and of the debris still scattered about the entrance of the 
cave. 
Mr Bry son's idea was, that the shells in the inner cave 
had accumulated there when the land was at a lower level, 
and when, in consequence, the sea had access to it — -that 
then a partial elevation took place, when the North Esk 
flowed past the bottom of the cliff, and carried in by an eddy 
the bones and other materials which blocked up the outer 
cave. It is unnecessary to combat Mr Bryson's views, the 
more so that I believe no one is now more convinced of their 
fallacy than himself. Mr Beattie again adopted the opinion 
that this had been a hyena cave like that of Kirkdale ; and 
it was the promulgation of this theory, so utterly incom- 
patible with the character of the bones, which caused his 
* otherwise important communication to the Aberdeen meet- 
ing to be overlooked. 
My first visit to the cave was made in company with Mr 
Beattie, and the shrewd tenant of the farm, Mr Walker, 
who had ere then utilised the bulk of the debris as top- 
dressing. Mr Walker was unacquainted with Dr Buckland s 
discoveries, but expressed his own opinion, that this collec- 
tion of bones and shells was nothing more than a "midden." 
Though I was not then aware of the discoveries made in 
Denmark by Steenstrup, Forchhamnier, and Worsoae, on the 
Kjokken-mod dings, I could not help admitting that Mr 
Walker's humble theory was more tenable than either of 
those formerly alluded to. When I read the able article by 
Sir John Lubbock, in the " National History Eeview" for 
October 1861, on the Danish Kjokken-moddings, the true 
history of the Warburton case appeared to me at once ex- 
plained ; and in the following summer, when I had an 
opportunity of inspecting the collections from the Kjokken- 
moddings, preserved in the Copenhagen Museum, I was 
Btill more convinced that the contents of the cave must 
