374 
POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
It occurs universally throughout Fi-ance, Grermany, Britain, and 
Italy, and may be taken as the characteristic animal of the pre- 
historic epoch. In Gaul and Britain it supplied the Koman 
les:ionaries with beef. 
In addition to many objects similar in their nature to those 
which have been described, amber beads, spindle whorls, a frag- 
ment of polished flint celt, and a portion of a cake of smelted 
copper, have been discovered by the Kent’s Hole Committee in 
the prehistoric layer. 
We now pass on to a brief account of the underlying deposit, 
which furnished to Mr. McEnery and to all subsequent explorers 
so rich a harvest. Immediately under the black superficial bed 
is a layer of stalagmite of varying thickness, which forms an 
adamantine pavement over the earth, large blocks of stone, and 
the remains of the postglacial animals. In one part, above a 
spot w'hence Mr. McEnery obtained flint implements, it was 2 ft. 
thick; in another it was no less than 12ft. The red earth is 
that which is usually found in caverns, and has been carried in 
by the percolation of water through the rock. The large 
angular IdIocIvS which it contains consist of Devonian limestone 
detached from the roof, and of an ancient crystalline stalagmite, 
to which we shall revert towards the conclusion of this essay. 
The small rounded pebbles of granite and other foreign materials 
have been washed in by the flow of -water from some bed of 
gravel in the neighbourhood. The remains of the animals are, 
more or less, gnawed and scored by teeth like those found in 
Wookey and Kirkdale. They prove that the cave was inhabited 
by hyamas, and that the animals to which they belonged fell a 
prey to those destructive carnivores. The remains in the cave 
belong to the following species : — 
Bhinoloplius femim oqiiiniim 
Sorex vulgaiis 
Ursus arctos 
Tarsus speliieus 
Ursus ferox 
Meles taxus 
Mustcla erminoa 
JjUtra vuljraris 
(!/’anis vulpus 
Cnnis lupus 
1 1 vicna spoljca 
I’Vlis leo 
M ach ai rod us 1 a ti d ( t.s 
(’ervus nie^'’acoro8 
Cervus tarandus 
Ccrvus elaplius 
Bos primig-enius 
Bison priscus 
Siis scrofa 
Equus caballus 
Bliinoceros ticliorli’nus 
Ehqdins priniigeiiius 
Lepus cuniculus 
Lop us tiniidus 
Lagomys spcl?Gus 
Arvicola pratensis 
Arvicola ngrcstis 
Arvicola anipliibidus 
Castor fiber 
31 us musculus 
To this list must be added Homo j^cdcvolithicus, as he inny 
