172 HULLl-yriN of the natural history society. 
Descending into the cave from the entrance is a slope (A) 
large enough for a man to pass easily, and at the foot of the slope 
is a landing with a floor composed of fragments of rock that 
have fallen from the sides of the slope. Beyond this is a low 
passage (B) that gives access to an ante-chamber of the main 
cavern. This ante-chamber (C) has a flat floor, partly of loam 
and partly of rock-fragments, which have fallen from the roof 
of the cave. 
The main chamber of the cave (D) is about sixty feet long 
and ten feet or more in height at the highest part. The floor of 
this chamber is not level, but slopes to the eastward and south- 
ward. This is the most interesting part of the cave, not only 
because of its size, but because of the bats which, when the cave 
was discovered, hung in large numbers suspended by their claws 
from the roof.* Another peculiarity of this chamber was the 
slender filaments of the roots of trees that hungfrom the crevices 
of the roof, and which were attributed to the trees which then 
grew in a thick wood on the limestone hill above the cave. The 
section prepared by ]\Ir. Robert ]\Iatthew gives a thickness of 
from fifteen to twenty feet of limestone above this part of the 
cave, but I do not know whether the outline of the surface shown 
in the plan is from actual survey, or only approximated. In this 
chamber and elsewhere in this cave, we found stalactites and sta- 
lagmites, but these were not remarkable for their size or beauty. 
However, a number were collected and placed in the museum of 
the Society. 
Beyond the main chamber is a short descent to a small chamber 
(E) at a lower level; the roof is hardly separated from the main 
chamber, and the floor is flat and covered with loam or clay. 
From this depressed level there extends a low and difficult pas- 
sage (F), much obstructed by fragments of limestone that have 
fallen from the roof. Crawling through here one comes to a 
small inner chamber (G) that terminates in a sloping passage 
(H), somewhat similar to the entrance passage, but smaller and 
shorter. 
*The species is Vesferiilio stibnlatus, the Little Brown Bat. 
