IN THE SEA CLIFFS. 
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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 30 to 40 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 bot¬ 
tom of these basins (see Plate XXI. h h.) ; 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. The floor of 
the cave ascends rapidly from its mouth inwards to the furthest ex¬ 
tremity (see Plate XXI. and description), so that the pebbles have 
not been drifted in beyond twenty feet, or about one-third of its 
whole length; in the remaining two-thirds no disturbance by the 
waters of the present sea appears ever to have taken place, and within 
this point at which the pebbles cease, the floor is covered with a mass 
of diluvial loam of a reddish yellow colour, abundantly mixed with 
angular fragments of limestone and broken calcareous spar, and inter¬ 
spersed with recent sea-shells, and with teeth and bones of the fol¬ 
lowing animals, viz. elephant, rhinoceros, bear, hyaena, 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, the edges of 
which had been chipped off', as if by striking a light. I subjoin a list 
of the most remarkable of the animal remains, most of which are pre¬ 
served in the collection at Penrice Castle, and the Museum at Oxford. 
