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TWO OTHER CAVES ADJOINING GOATS HOLE. 
bottom of which, being on the level of the sea, is almost perpetually 
under water. This east cave also is seen to terminate upwards in a 
vein of calcareous spar. The floor of the west cave is at its mouth 
about thirty feet above the sea, and more horizontal than that of 
Goats Hole, and being throughout within reach of the highest storm 
waves, is strewed over entirely, to the depth of more than a foot, with 
a bed of small sea pebbles. Digging through these, I found beneath 
them a bed of the same argillaceous loam and fragments of limestone 
as in the Goats Hole, and a still more abundant accumulation of 
animal remains. In a short time I collected two baskets’ full of the 
teeth and bones of ox, horse, deer, and bear; and have reason to 
think the entire floor beneath the pebbles is covered with a con¬ 
tinuous mass of the same diluvial earth and fragments of stones, in¬ 
termixed with teeth and bones, and altogether of the same age and 
origin with the antediluvian part of those in Goats Hole, the near 
position of which renders it probable that both these caves are re¬ 
siduary offshoots or branches of some larger cavern, that has been cut 
away by the denudation which formed the present cliffs, and whose 
main trunk is now no more; and that by means of this main trunk 
they originally had communication with each other, and received at 
the same time the animal remains and diluvial detritus that are com¬ 
mon to them both. Their relative position is such, that if both were 
prolonged towards the sea they would soon meet, and either become 
confluent, or intersect each other. 
The time and manner in which these two caverns received the 
antediluvian teeth and bones, and the earthy matter through which 
they are dispersed, would not so easily have been ascertained had it 
