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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
[CH. III. 
land side, and are accessible only at low water, except by 
dangerous climbing along the face of a nearly precipitous 
cliff, composed entirely of compact mountain limestone. 
“One of them only called Goat’s Hole,” writes Buck- 
land in the ‘ Reliquiae Diluvianae,’ “ had been noticed when 
I arrived there. ... Its existence had been long known 
to the farmers of the adjacent lands, as well as the fact 
of its containing large bones, but it had been no further 
attended to till last summer, when it was explored by the 
surgeon and curate of the nearest village, Porteynon, who 
discovered in it two molar teeth of elephant and a 
portion of a large curved tusk, which latter they buried 
again in the earth, where it remained till it was extracted 
a second time, on a further examination of the cave by 
L. W. Dillwyn, Esq., and Miss Talbot, and removed to 
Penrice Castle, together with a large part of the skull to 
which it had belonged, and several baskets full of other 
teeth and bones. On the news of this further discovery being 
communicated to me, I went immediately from Derbyshire 
to Wales, and found the position of the cave to be such as 
I have above described ; and its floor at the mouth to be 
from thirty to forty feet above high-water mark, so that 
the waves of the highest storms occasionally dash into it, 
and have produced three or four deep rock basins in its 
very threshold, by the rolling on their axis of large stones, 
which still lie at the bottom of these basins; around their 
edge, and in the outer part of the cave itself, are strewed 
a considerable number of sea pebbles, resting on the native 
limestone rock. . . . Where the pebbles cease, the floor is 
covered with a mass of diluvial loam of a reddish yellow 
colour, abundantly mixed with angular fragments of lime¬ 
stone and broken calcareous spar, and interspersed with 
recent sea shells, and with teeth and bones of the following 
animals, viz. elephant, rhinoceros, bear, hyena, wolf, fox, 
horse, ox, deer of two or three species, water-rats, sheep, 
birds, and man. 
“ I found also fragments of charcoal, and a small flint. 
