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surface by an opening sufficiently wide to allow the passage of all 
its contents, and that it was thus filled." 
This cave contained the remains of herbivores chiefly, with a few 
carnivores ; the animals represented including the mammoth, rhi- 
noceros, cave lion, cave bear, wolf, horse, ox, deer, and hog. Mr. 
H. C. Hodge states that the remains of elephants found belonged 
not merely to very young, but to somewhat mature animals ; that 
there were numerous teeth of elk or deer and ox, but no antlers or 
horn cores (a fragment of the base of an antler and one small horn 
core excepted) ; that the canine of a lion measured 5| inches in 
length ; that both Equus plicidens and E. fossilis occurred, with 
teeth referable to the ass or zebra ; that of the carnivores teeth of 
bears predominated, indicating two species ; and that there were no 
remains of hysenas or their coprolites. 
From 1859 until 1878 no further discovery of any importance 
was made, though a few bones occasionally occurred. Early in 
June last, however, Mr. J. Goad, of the Phoenix Marble Works, 
informed me that bones had been found in the course of working 
the Pomphlett Quarry, near Oreston, and that he had directed their 
preservation. He kindly offered to give whatever might be found 
to our Museum, and to place the working of this new ossiferous 
fissure under my care. I at once examined the bones discovered, 
the most notable object in which was a horn core. To this we are 
indebted for our knowledge of the deposit. The foreman of the 
quarry had asked his employer for a horn to give the usual blasting 
signals; but when he received it said he thought he could have 
done without, as the core, which he then produced, and which had 
been found in the interim, might have been made to answer the 
purpose. Mr. Goad, however, saw the importance of the core in 
another light, ordered all that might be found to be preserved, and 
communicated with me. 
Two days afterwards we visited the place together. Pomphlett 
Quarry closely adjoins Pomphlett Creek on the west, and is at the 
extreme end of the Oreston range of quarries from the point where 
* "Geologist," 1860, pp. 26-30, 343-7. Cited "Devon. Assoc. Trans.," 
vol. v. part i. pp. 300-8. Mr. Hodge also suggests that other teeth belonged 
to the giraffe and the camel, and a "few hollow conical teeth" to immense 
reptiles. He likewise notes the occurrence of a " small rodent the size of a 
mouse," and records teeth of sheep or goat, about the genuineness of which 
he was doubtful. 
