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nowhere been reached. In the cases in which there was no Cave-earth, 
the Granulär Stalagmite rested immediately on the Crystalline ; and 
where the Crystalline Stalagmite was not present, the Cave-earth and 
Breccia were in direct contact. Large isolated masses of the Crystalline 
Stalagmite, as well as concreted lumps of the Breccia, were occasionally 
met with in the Cave-earth, thus showing that the older deposits had, in 
portions of the Cavern, been partially broken up, dislodged, and rede- 
posited. No instance was met with of the incorporation in a lower bed of 
fragments derived from an upper one. In short, wherever all the deposits 
were found in one and the same vertical section, the order of superposition 
was clear and invariable ; and elsewhere the succession, though defective, 
was never transgressed. 
Excepting the overlying blocks of limestone, of course, all the deposits 
contained remains of animals, which, however, were not abundant in the 
Stalagmites. 
The Black Mould, the uppermost bed, yielded teeth and bones of Man, 
Dog, Fox, Badger, Brown Bear, Bos longifrons, Roedeer, Sheep, Goat, Pig, 
Hare, Rabbit, and Seal — species still existing, and almost all of them in 
Devonshire. This has been called the Ovine bed, the remains of Sheep 
being restricted to it. In it were also found numerous flint flakes and 
“ strike-lights ; ” stone spindle whorls ; fragments of curvilinear pieces of 
slate ; amber beads ; bone tools, including awls, chisels, and combs ; 
bronze articles, such as rings, a fibula, a spoon, a spear-head, a socketed 
celt, and a pin ; pieces of smelted copper ; and a great number and variety 
of potsherds, including fragments of Samian wäre. 
The Granulär Stalagmite, Black Band, and Cave-earth, taken together 
as belonging to one and the same biological period, may be terrned the 
Hycenine beds, the Cave Hysena being their most prevalent species and 
found in them alone. So far as they have been identified, the remains 
belong to the Cave Hysena, Equus caballus, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, 
Gigantic Irish Deer, Bos primigenius , Bison priscus, Red Deer, Mammoth, 
Badger, Cave Bear, Grizzly Bear, Brown Bear, Cave Lion, Wolf, Fox, 
Reiudeer, Beaver, Glutton, Machairodus latidens, and Man— the last being 
a pari of a jaw with teeth, in the Granulär Stalagmite. In the same beds 
were found unpolished ovate and lanceolate implements made from flakes, 
not nodides, of flint and chert ; flint flakes, chips, and “ cores ; ” “ whet- 
stones ; ” a “ hammer-stone ; ” “ dead ” shells of Beeten ; bits of charcoal ; 
and bone tools, including a needle or bodkin having a well-formed eye, 
a pin, an awl, three harpoons, and a perforated tooth of Badger. The 
artificial objects, of both bone and stone, were found at all depths in each 
of the Hysenine beds, but were much more numei’ous below the Stalagmite 
than in it. 
The relics found in the Crystalline Stalagmite and the Breccia, in some 
places extremely abundant, were almost exclusively those of Bear, the only 
exceptions being a very few remains of Cave Lion and Fox. Hence these 
have been terrned the Ursine beds. It will be remembered that teeth and 
bones of Bear were also met with in both the Hysenine and the Ovine 
beds ; and it should be understood that this biological classitication is 
intended to apply to Kent’s Cavern only. The Ursine deposits, or rather 
the Breccia, the lowest of them, also yielded evidences of human ex- 
istence ; but they were exclusively tools made from nodules, not flakes, 
of flint and chert. 
Ansty's-Cove Cavern. — About 3 furlongs from Kent’s Hole towards 
N.N.E., near the top of the lofty cliff forming the northern boundary of 
the beautiful Ansty’s Cove, Torquay, there is a cavern where, simulta- 
neously with those in Kent’s Cavern, Mr. MacEnery conducted some 
researches, of which he has left a brief account (see Trans. Devon. Assoc. 
