134 JWh Whidbey’s account of fossil bones discovered 
yards, in that direction, from the spot where the former 
bones were found in 1816. 
All this quarry had been worked by blasting through the 
solid rock, with here and there a few small caverns similar 
to that where the bones were discovered, but none of them 
had the smallest appearance of ever having had any opening 
to the surface, or connection with it whatever, or with each 
other. The caverns here spoken of were quarried many feet 
below the bottom of them, and nothing was found but hard 
solid lime- stone, in which the quarrying ceased, and the 
workmen proceeded on in an horizontal direction. 
Many caverns have been met with in these quarries, the 
insides of which have been crusted with stalactite; but there 
was no appearance of this kind in the cavern where the bones 
were found, every part of it being perfectly dry, and nearly 
clear of rubbish, a circumstance which clearly proves it had 
no connection with the surface, as in that case water would 
have found its way into it, the dropping of which would have 
formed stalactite, as in other instances. 
I also send you some other bones, found about the same 
time, four yards distant from those just mentioned, and I 
have reason to believe on the same level, and under exactly 
similar circumstances. 
To this account Sir Everard Home has added the follow- 
ing description of the bones, and the names of the animals 
to which they appear to have belonged. 
