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CAVE OF PAVILAND, 
7.— CAVE OF PAVILAND. 
The seventh and last case that has occurred in this country is that 
of another discovery recently made on the coast of Glamorganshire, 
fifteen miles west of Swansea, between Oxwich Bay and the Worms 
Head, on the property of C. M. Talbot, Esq. It consists of two large 
caves facing the sea, in the front of a lofty cliff of limestone, which 
rises more than 100 feet perpendicularly above the mouth of the 
caves, and below them slopes at an angle of about 40° to the water’s 
, edge, presenting a bluff and rugged shore to the waves, which are 
very violent along this north coast of the estuary of the Severn. 
These caves are altogether invisible from the land side, and are acces¬ 
sible only at low water, except by dangerous climbing along the face 
of a nearly precipitous cliff, composed entirely of compact mountain 
limestone, which dips north at an angle of about 45°. One of them 
only (called Goats Hole) had been noticed when I arrived there, 
and I shah describe it first, before I proceed to speak of the other. 
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 farther attended to till last summer, when it was explored by the 
surgeon and curate of the nearest village, Port Inon, 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 in 
the and of December last by L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. and Miss Talbot, and 
