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310 PREHISTORIC TIMES Les apophyses géni ne sont pas indiquées; les fossettes latérales sont très-prononcées, et le rebord mentonnier est reduit à son minimum, Les alvéoles des canines, bien que très-rapprochées des alvéoles des incisives, et des molaires, nous rappellent la disposition qu'on observe sur la mâchoire du singe. En effet, l'alvéole qui logeait la canine est fort vaste et bombée à la face externe. Ce qui semble plus étrange encore, c'est que les trois alvéoles des grosses molaires presentent absolument l'ordre typique du maxillaire simien par l'augmentation progressive des alvéoles de la premiere à la deuxième et à la troisième molaire."

The celebrated cavern of Kent's Hole, near Torquay, was examined by Mr MacEnery as long ago as 1825. He did not, however, publish his notes on the subject, and they remained in manuscript until 1859, when Mr Vivian succeeded in obtaining them. Mr MacEnery found human bones, flint flakes, etc., but all either on the surface or in disturbed soil, so that on the whole he regarded them, though apparently with much doubt, as posterior to the remains of the cave-bear, hyæna, etc.

In the year 1840, Mr Godwin-Austen communicated to the Geological Society a memoir on the Geology of the south-east of Devonshire,1 and in his description of Kent's Hole he says, that "human remains and works of art, such as arrow-heads and knives of flint, occur in all parts of the cave, and throughout the entire thickness of the clay: and no distinction founded on condition, distribution, or relative position, can be observed, whereby the human can be separated from the other reliquiæ," which included bones of the "elephant, rhinoceros, ox, deer, horse, bear, hyæna, and a feline animal of large size." The value, he truly adds, "of such a statement must rest on the care with which a collector may have explored. I must therefore state that my own researches were constantly conducted in parts of the cave which had never been disturbed, and in every instance the bones were procured

1 ''Transactions of the Geol. Soc,'' Ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 433.