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recorded the occurrence, under the same conditions, both of worked flints and of worked 
bones. Amongst the human remains were two skulls, one of which, found at a depth 
of 5 feet in the cave-earth, “ was surrounded on all sides by teeth of Bhinoceros. Horse, 
Hyaena, and Bear the other was lying at the bottom of the deposit by the side of a 
tooth of an Elephant. The human bones, like those of the extinct animals, were mostly 
broken and fragmentary. They were all of the same colour and mixed together indis- 
criminately ; and, according to Dr. Schmeelixg, there were no traces of the ground 
having, in those places, been artiflcially disturbed. 
Several remarkable instances have been recorded in Germany, whilst in France the 
subject has from time to time found zealous inquirers*, and some important cases are 
still undergoing investigation. 
About thirty years ago the Eev. Mr. M'^Exert, a Eoman Catholic clergATnan residing 
near Torquay, diligently explored the large and extensive cavern knoum as Kent’s Hole, 
one mile east of Torquay. In the red loam, under the stalagmite floor, he found the 
bones of the Mammoth, Tichorhine Bhinoceros, Cave Bear, Cave Hyaena, Horse, &c . ; 
whilst he also noticed, that, besides the remains of man with chan'ed wood, and coarse 
pottery found scattered on the surface of the stalagmite, there also occiuTed in this red 
loam under it (though he himself seems to have doubted how far in true association with 
the remains of the extinct animals) worked flints of rude forms, and which he supposed 
to have been used as arrow-heads and knives. It was his intention to have published 
an account of his observations, with plates of the organic remains, and he had akeady, 
in conjunction with the late Dr. Bucklaxd, had seventeen quarto plates engraved, when 
his untimely death deprived science of the result of his valuable researches. For 
many years it was supposed that Mr. M'^Exert’s MSS. were lost. A large portion of 
them, together with the plates, have been, however, recently recovered and publishedf, 
furnishing, although incomplete, an important addition to the history of cave-remains. 
On one of his plates (T, flgs. 11, 12) are drawings of two flint-implements of larger size 
than the others, and approaching closely in form to the common AbbeHlle type (Plate XII. 
fig. 1), but the particulars concerning them are unfortunately missing. Mr. M'^Exery's 
observations were shortly afterwards confirmed by an able and experienced geologist 
Mr. Godwix-Austex, who described the cave in his paper on the “ Geology of South 
Devon,” published in 1840J. In 1847 the Torquay Natural History Society determined 
on a further examination of the cavern, with the special object of determining the exact 
* The number of alleged cases in the South of France is not inconsiderable. For full information upon 
many of these and on caverns in general, I beg to refer to the ■work of the indefatigable and veteran geologist, 
M. Maecel de Seeees, ‘ Essai sur les Cavernes a Ossemens et sur les causes qui les y ont accumulos.’ 
Paris, 1838. See also the valuable paper on Caves {Orottes) by M. DESXOrEKS in C. D’Obbigtvx’s ‘Dic- 
tionnaire d’Histoire Xaturelle,’ where the question is discussed at length and with much ability. Of three 
alternatives this author suggests, he is disposed to adopt for the present the one which refers the association 
of the bones of man and of the extinct mammals to disturbances and mixtiu’e of the beds subsequent to 
their original separate deposition. 
t Cavern Eesearches by the Eev. Mr. M'-’Ejsteey, edited by E. Yiviax, Esq. Loudon, 1859. 
J Transactions of the Geological Society, 2ud ser. vol. vi. p. 111. 
