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Rubble bed. 
Red cave-earth, stony above. 
Red and mottled cave-earth. 
Red-brown cave-earth with patches of calcareous sand. 
Red sandy cave-earth with blocks of limestone. 
> Stiff marly clay. 
r n this section bed A1 is of extremely recent origin, and may be neglected ; 
1 teeth were found in bed A, pottery occurred in B. C., and Mr. Foote 1 records 
ments from K and L. 
"he second section is in the Cathedral, and is as follows. 
C. Surface bed. 
C. Grey sandy bed. 
Stalagmite in irregular masses. 
Ca. Red sandy cave-earth. 
Cb. i 
Cc. | Stiff red clay. 
Cd. ) 
| Stiff dark marl. 
Dark loamy marl. 
> Grey marl. 
Ch. 
Ci. 
Cj. 
Ck. 
Cl. 
Grey marl. 
this section the beds Cc. and Cd. yielded the most important specimens. 
■ondition of the hones . — 'The majority of the bones and many of the teeth are 
d of a full brown colour, and strongly impregnated with mineral matter, 
specimens, however, which were obtained from beds containing extinct species, 
’.arcely altered, and are almost indistinguishable from the bones of recent 
S 'S ; and since these specimens belong to fossorial rodents and carnivores it is 
evident that they are of later age than the highly mineralized specimens with 
|;hey are associated. 
le teeth of Rhinoceros from bed Cc. in the Cathedral are but little altered ; and 
if the incisors of Hystrix and other rodents from bed Cd. still retain their 
l orange colour. Of the larger mammals no complete skulls were found, the 
y of the remains consisting either of detached teeth, fragments of the jaws, 
3 or less imperfect limb-bones. Of the smaller mammals skulls were found in 
istances ; but in many cases the only determinable remains are fragments of 
I s and limb-bones. Vast quantities of bones of Chiroptera and small Rodentia — 
7 introduced, as Mr. Foote suggests, by owls — were obtained in many of the 
it these are totally valueless as not being even generically determinable, 
lerable number of the larger bones have been gnawed by porcupines. 
l ‘ Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind.’ vol. XVII. p. 206. 
