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which renders this likely is that drift pebbles are constantly 
found in close proximity to the bones. Now these pebbles 
come from localities at considerable distance from the cavern. 
There are evident indications that these bones had been 
carried along by rapid currents of water, which swept away 
everything in their course, or, in other words, by the current of 
the waters of the deluge, which signalized the quaternary epoch.” 
It is specially to be noted that “ rolled stones, not derivable 
from the cavern-hill occur here and there in every part* [of 
Kent’s Cavern] which has been explored .” These comprised 
“ pieces of granite from Dartmoor, crystalline schist from the 
Start and Bolt (15 miles off), and even of slate from the more 
immediate neighbourhood.” 
I read in the committee’s First Reportf that many of the 
bones “appear to have been rolled, including most of those which 
had been gnawed ; and in the case of the latter it is tolerably 
obvious that the rolling was subsequent to the gnawing.” 
In order to present this more cleai’ly I shall refer to the 
evidence of Mr. McEnery, who seems to me to have read the 
riddle of the cave more perfectly than its other explorers. 
Having described the obstacles which he had to remove 
before he could obtain entrance into a before unexplored part 
of the cavern, he says, J “ This obstacle removed, we burned 
with impatience to penetrate into the chambers beyond. As 
a grotto hung with curious concretions of dazzling brilliancy, 
it well repaid our search. The floor sloped upwards and con- 
ducted into two oven-shaped branches, which it threw off to 
the right and left, similar to those near the common entrance, 
and with which the one on the right seemed to communicate, 
though partly closed up at present with stalactites. That on 
the left seemed to pierce through the boundary wall of the 
cavern into the open air” 
“We now returned to the excavation which produced the 
wolf’s head. The stalagmite was about a foot and a half 
thick, and of excessive hardness, in which were embedded 
rocky fragments rolled down the slope ; but as we advanced 
inwards, the stalagmite became altogether free from foreign 
admixture, and moulded itself upon the mass of bones. Of the 
quantity and condition of the remains here it is scarcely pos- 
sible to give a just idea without appearing to exaggerate. 
They were so thickly packed together that, to avoid injuring 
them, we were obliged to lay aside the picks and grub them 
out with our fingers. They had suffered considerably from 
* Third Report of Committee, ]>. (>. 
X McEnery, p. 55. 
f First Report, p. 8. 
