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which they were taken we saw appearances of as many more still un¬ 
disturbed, and forming a mass which entirely blocked it up to an 
extent which we could not then ascertain; those already extracted had 
been discovered in a hollow, which apparently formed the lowest part 
of a cavernous aperture descending obliquely downwards. Ascend¬ 
ing this aperture from its lowest point, we pursued it upwards many 
feet through the solid rock till it became narrow, and was entirely ob¬ 
structed by a mass of bones, fragments of limestone, and mud; these 
have probably been since removed, and I must refer to Mr. Whidby's 
account, in the Transactions of the Eoyal Society for 1823, Part L, 
for further particulars as to the manner in which he has traced its 
connexions upwards through other caverns towards the surface *. 
* In the course of the summer of 1822, Joseph Cottle, Esq. of Bristol, has made a 
large collection of hones from this same cave during a visit to Plymouth, and has added 
the tiger to the list of animals before discovered in it. He has favoured me with 
the following list of the remains in his possession, and is about to publish a description 
of them. 
18 jaws of horse. 
2 jaws of ox. 
2 jaws of hyaena. 
2 jaws of deer. 
5 jaws of wolf. 
Single teeth, 188 of horse. 
26 of ox. 
9 of hyaena. 
2 tusks of tiger: one 3-j- inches long, the other ; one from the 
upper, the other from the lower jaw. 
5 teeth of wolf. 
35 of deer. 
50 of ox or deer: not ascertained. 
Bones: 300 large and small, chiefly of the horse; none of them are gnawed, many 
are quite perfect, and the majority of them slightly broken. 
Osseous breccia: 33 specimens, containing teeth and bones cemented by stalagmite. 
From this list it appears that the bones of horse greatly predominate in the collec- 
