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more interest in the research. The results of my subsequent 
inquiries I have given in my Paper on the Caves. Although I 
“made no examination of anything,” I must somehow or other 
have discovered some formidable faults and flaws in the Cave 
theories which have been so abundantly propagated. 
The truth is that my “ long investigation,” not of the cave, 
but of the literature of the cave, brought me into acquaintance 
(through the kindness of a friend) with the results of the 
explorations of the Rev. Mr. McEnery, wdio, in the course of 
five years' investigation, seems to me to have anticipated, in 
his discoveries, all that has since been explored by Mr. Peu- 
gelly and others, to whom the merit has been assigned by the 
scientific world. I certainly appeal from Mr. Pengelly to 
this well-known authority; who was not led by his investi- 
gations to any such conclusions as to the antiquity of 
man, as have been so zealously propounded by his suc- 
cessors. Moreover, I thank Mr. Pengelly for reminding 
me that Mr. McEnery traced to the influx of waters from 
the deluge of Noah much that is otherwise sought to be ex- 
plained by Mr. Pengelly and his friends. In this and in 
other respects, particularly that of his apparent want of 
fluency in English, he was placed at a disadvantage ; and his 
papers were left in a very unfinished state. Such as they are, 
we have to thank Mr. Pengelly for rescuing them from entire 
oblivion. I know not how to procure a copy by purchase, 
and have not one at hand now to refer to. If the Rev. Mr. 
McEnery were still living, I think the kvSoq which rightly 
belongs to him would not be withheld. 
As an illustration of what I have been saying, occurs the 
following. Mr. Pengelly (p. 612) calls in question my state- 
ment (p. 6, “Caves”), that no stalagmite had been formed 
over the band of black mould, on the ground that, in one 
place , “ the overlying black mould was itself overlaid by a 
cake of stalagmite, which was attached to the wall of the 
cavern, from 1 to 2 inches thick, and which measured 7 feet 
from north to south by 6 from east to west. In many instances 
stalagmite, fully as thick, had been found on the large blocks 
of limestone lying on the black mould ; but this w T as the first, 
and indeed is at present the only, example of such a cake 
immediately on the black deposit itself.” 
This may all be correct without impeaching the general 
accuracy of my statement. Indeed, when we look at the 
formations “ fully as thick ” which may be seen under the 
bridges of our railways in the limestone districts, it would be 
strange if no coating of real stalagmite should occur on stones 
lying on the surface in a cave such as Kent's Cavern, for one 
