OSSIFEROUS CAVES AT YEALMPTON. 
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were always collected at the bottom, and beneath 
large accumulations of fragments of rock. As I had 
no opportunity of examining the Oreston caves, I 
can offer no decisive judgment on the somewhat 
contrasted opinions of Buckland and De la Beche, 
in respect of the phenomena they presented. 
I have lately received from Oreston a curious 
tooth, which I am not able to assign to any species 
of animal; it was taken out of a small fissure of the 
rock, unconnected with those caves in which the 
great assemblage of bones just alluded to was 
found. This tooth is represented in a woodcut. 
The animals to w r hich the bones in these caves at 
Oreston, as also those in the cave at Torquay be¬ 
longed, being the same as those found at Yealm 
Bridge of which particular notice is taken, I have 
not thought it requisite to repeat the names. 
The second spot where this class of remains 
occurs is Yealmpton, my own residence. Here a 
series of caves has at various times been brought to 
light; one very similar to that at Yealm Bridge (of 
which I shall presently give a precise account) was 
found by the quarrymen a few years since, and its 
contents thoroughly destroyed ; near this, a small 
cave has since the discovery at Yealm Bridge, been 
investigated by a gentleman on whose property it 
occurs ; its contents were quite similar, save in 
variety and quantity, and the bones of the hyaena 
and deer were those principally noticed; again, 
among the pebbles and rubbish of Kitley cave 
which adjoins the village, I found an hyaena’s 
tooth, and a fragment of the head of a hare, or 
rabbit, there is also a bone of some quadruped 
firmly fixed among the diluvial pebbles in that 
part of the cavern which seems to have been 
choked up with those bodies :—facts which are at 
variance with the account of this subject given by 
Colonel Mudge in his paper read before the Geologi- 
