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XXI. f.) adheres together in a loose breccia, and has been less dis¬ 
turbed than the rest, which it overhangs with a cliff about five feet 
high, and extending inwards from <f to the interior extremity of the 
cave b, where it enters into and covers the floor of the small hole that 
terminates the cave. At the point b the recent shells and bones of 
birds are most abundant, and the earthy mass containing them is 
cemented to a firm breccia by stalagmite; and this is almost the only 
point within the cave at which any stalagmite or stalactite occurs. 
The two elephants’ teeth were found in the small cliff f, at a distance 
from the head and tusk, which lay close together in the loose earth e, 
at the spot represented in the drawing. The anterior part of the skull, 
and the sockets of both the tusks, were found nearly entire, but have 
been much broken by removal. They were but slightly covered 
with earth, and very tender; the portion of tusk also, being about 
two feet long, is so much decayed that the whole of its interior has 
crumbled to small angular fragments, so soft as to be cut by the nail, 
whilst the outer laminae alone remain entire, and in the form of a 
hollow shell, which is preserved at Penrice; so also are the fragments 
that composed great part of the entire skull, and were broken 
in extracting them; and another portion of ivory, in which has 
been formed an irregular cavity, about two inches in diameter, 
similar to those produced by ossific inflammation in recent ivory by 
gun-shot wounds, and encircled with concentric laminae of bony 
matter, placed obliquely to the grain of the ivory: it is probably the 
effect of a blow or puncture received whilst this part of the tusk 
was yet in its pulpy state, and within the socket. No large bones 
of the skeleton have as yet been discovered entire; they seem to 
