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have been destroyed and broken to pieces by repeated diggings. 
The other ancient bones also have been much broken, and appear 
generally in the state of fragments dispersed irregularly through the 
earthy matrix, together with ancient teeth, and fragments of horns, 
and with the modern bones and recent shells above enumerated. 
None of these remains have any marks of having been gnawed or 
rolled, nor have the fragments of limestone, and of calcareous spar 
that occur with them, lost much of their angles. Among the horns 
I noticed the base of two that are separate from the skull, and ap¬ 
pear to have been cast off by necrosis; and among the bones was the 
entire skull of a deer, from which the horns had been broken off by 
violence. In the centre of the cave, and about two feet deep, I found 
under and amongst the broken bones of elephant, bear, and other 
extinct animals, a portion of the scapula apparently of a sheep, which 
had been smoothly cut across as if by a butcher’s saw; and, from its 
state of preservation, was decidedly not antediluvian. This mixture 
of ancient and comparatively modern bones must have arisen from 
repeated diggings in the bottom of the cave. 
In another part (see Plate XXI.) I discovered beneath a shallow 
covering of six inches of earth nearly the entire left side of a human 
female skeleton. The skull and vertebras, and extremities of the 
right side were wanting; the remaining parts lay extended in the 
usual position of burial, and in their natural order of contact, and 
consisted of the humerus, radius, and ulna of the left arm, the hand 
being wanting; the left leg and foot entire to the extremity of the 
toes, part of the right foot, the pelvis, and many ribs; in the middle 
of the bones of the ancle was a small quantity of yellow wax-like sub- 
