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it, and at about a foot I dug out a flint arrow head. This confir- 
mation, I confess it, startled me. I dug again, and, behold! a 
second of the same size and colour (black). I struck my hammer 
into the earth a third time, and a third arrow head (but white) 
answered to the blow. This was evidence beyond all question.” 
‘‘Dr. Buckland is inclined to attribute these flints to a more 
modern date, by supposing that the ancient Britons had scooped 
out ovens in the stalagmite, and that through them the knives got 
admission to the diluvium [ or Cave-earth }, and that in this confused 
state the several materials were agglutinated together. . . . With- 
out stopping to dwell on the difficulty of ripping up a solid floor, 
which, notwithstanding the advantage of undermining and the 
exposure of its edges, still defies all our efforts, though commanding 
the apparatus of the quarry, I am bold to say that in no instance 
have I discovered evidence of breaches or ovens in the floor, but 
one continuous plate of stalagmite diffused uniformly over the loam. 
‘‘Tt is painful to dissent from so high an authority, and more 
particularly so from concurrence generally in his views of the 
phenomena of these caves, which three years’ personal observation 
has in almost every instance enabled me to verify.”’ * 
It is not intended to follow Mr. Mac Enery’s cavern researches 
any further on this occasion, but I cannot forego the pleasure of 
stating that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who has done so much to 
promote the increase as well as the diffusion of science, has recently 
taken the requisite steps for making the following addition to the 
inscription on his headstone, which has been already quoted :— 
‘‘Mr. Mac Enery was the pioneer of systematic observations in 
Kent’s Hole and other Caverns in this neighbourhood; the sagacious 
and reverent observer of the works in nature of Him whose is the 
earth and the fulness thereof.”’ 
Without dwelling on the subsequent and confirmatory researches 
carried on in Kent’s Hole by Mr. Godwin-Austen, and still later 
by the Torquay Natural History Society, I purpose devoting this 
paper to a description and consideration of the Flint and Chert 
Implements found in the Cavern by the Committee appointed by 
the British Association; and to call attention to the fact that, whilst 
all the noteworthy specimens are unpolished and found with the 
* “Trans. Devon. Assoc.,’’ vol. iii. (1869), pp. 329, 334, and 338. 
