1822-1824.] 
DREAM LEAD MINE. 
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added to the juxtaposition of so many of the component 
parts of one entire skeleton, which are neither rolled, or 
gnawed, or broken, except by the movement they have 
recently undergone, and the pickaxes of the miners, it 
seems probable that they are the remains of a carcase that 
was drifted in entire at the same time with the diluvial 
detritus, in the midst of which they were found embedded : 
SECTION OF CAVE IN DREAM LEAD MINE, NEAR WIRKSWORTH, DERBYSHIRE. 
had they been washed in singly, they would have been 
slightly rolled and scattered irregularly, and we should 
probably have found parts of more than a single individual ; 
and had they been derived from an animal that fell into 
the fissure, and perished before the introduction of the 
diluvium, they would not have been suspended, as they 
were, altogether nearly in the middle of it, but would have 
lain either on the actual floor of the cave beneath the 
loam and pebbles, or have been scattered and drifted 
