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lie could have bequeathed to us his autobiography, it would 
have been highly interesting to learn what he thought of his 
position and of his companions. 
Especially, should we desire information respecting one 
animal, the Machairodus latidens (Owen), a large lion-like animal, 
armed with double-edged teeth, in shape like the blade of a 
sabre and with two serrated edges. This formidable creature 
seems to belong rather to the pleiocene than to the 'pleistocene 
age, and its remains are exceedingly rare, but were found by 
McEnery in the cave, giving rise to considerable controversy. 
It is probable that the expenditure of some thousand pounds 
by the British Association has produced no result so important 
as the confirmation of the accuracy of the previous discoveries 
of McEnery, this one among the rest, which tended greatly 
towards the clearing of the cavern. It is needful, if we would 
preserve the regular sequence of strata, to notice in the next 
place a local deposit called “ the black band,” which yielded 
350 flint implements and flakes, charred wood in great 
quantity, bones partially charred, bone tools, including a well- 
formed awl, a harpoon or fish-spear, barbed on one side, and a 
portion of a needle, having a nicely-made eye, capable of carry- 
ing fine twine, and remains of bear, badger, fox, cave-hyena, 
rhinoceros, horse, ox, and deer. 
All these objects may, if I mistake not, be seen in the 
Torquay Museum, and, if admitted to be more than one hundred 
thousand years old,* throw considerable light on the early 
development of the honourable pursuits of the tailor and 
sempstress. Pity that the art was lost before our first parents 
so much needed clothing ! 
The cave-earth (next in order) contained the great harvest 
of remains of the common cave mammals, including extinct 
species, such as the mammoth, cave-bear, &c. ; recent species 
no longer existing in Britain, such as the reindeer, wolf, &c. ; 
and recent species still inhabiting the district, such as the 
badger, fox, &c. 
The remains of the horse and rhinoceros were extremely 
abundant, but were probably surpassed by those of the cave- 
hyena. “ The bones lay together, without anything like 
order; remnants of different species were constantly com- 
mingled, and in no instance was there met with anything 
approaching a complete skeleton. Mixed with them, and at 
all depths to which the cave-earth was excavated, indications 
of man were everywhere found,” — harpoons, bone pins, and tho 
inevitable flint flakes. 
100 000 according to Mr. Pengelly, or 200,000 according to the Guide. 
