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CAVE NEAR CLIFTON. 
of a large deer’s horn very flat, and the slough of a horn (or the 
spongy porous substance that occupies the inside of the horns of oxen), 
of an extraordinary size, together with a great variety of teeth and 
small bones belonging to different species of land animals. The bones 
and teeth were extremely well preserved, all retaining their native 
whiteness, and, as they projected from the sides and top of the cavity, 
exhibited an appearance not unlike the inside of a charnel-house. 
It appears most probable, from the description given of these 
bones and horns, that they were not dragged in by beasts of prey, but 
either drifted in by the diluvian waters, or derived from animals that 
had fallen in before the introduction of the ochreous loam: the loam 
itself and pebbles are clearly of diluvial origin. 
On the summit of Sandford Hill, on the east of Hutton, bones of 
the elephant were also, according to Mr. Catcott’s MSS., discovered 
four fathoms deep among loose rubble. 
2.—CAVE ON DERDHAM DOWN, NEAR CLIFTON. 
A second case of fossil fragments of bone has been communicated to 
me by Mr. J. S. Miller, of Bristol, as discoveredby Mr. Benton,in a fissure 
of mountain limestone, near Clifton, by the turnpike-gate on Derdham 
Down. The fissure was two feet broad, and contained fragments of 
stone and stalagmite. The bones lie beneath this breccia, and are not 
rolled, but have evidently been fractured by violence: they are partially 
incrusted with stalactitic matter, and the broken surfaces have also an 
external coating of thin ochreous stalactite, showing the fracture to have 
been ancient. One specimen, the property of Mr. Miller, displays the 
curious circumstance of a fossil joint of the horse : it is the tarsus joint, 
