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Rh time of the accumulation above it, the proportion of remains in each being as 156 : 3610.

The remains of the animals were also, on the whole, more perfect in the red sand than in the cave-earth, and not so much gnawed by the hyænas.

We may also observe that here, as in Wookey Hole, hyænas, rhinoceroses, horses, and reindeer are most abundant among the lower animals; while the traces of man, represented mainly by flint and quartzite implements, being practically indestructible, stand at the head of the list.

The implements and ornaments left behind by palæolithic man amount to a number of no less than 1040, all of which, with the exception of a few of the trimmed flakes and the incised figure of a horse engraved on a fragment of rib, are of the simplest forms, and of the types which I have already described in my former paper. The conclusion thus arrived at, that the rude implements of quartzite were used by the hunters before the more carefully finished implements of flint, is thoroughly borne out by this exploration; for although the absence of the breccia in which most of the more finely worked implements were met with in 1875 rendered the definition of the horizon of flint from that of the quartzite less distinct than before, we observed that, on the whole, the flints were found in the upper part of the cave-earth, while the quartzite implements were mainly found in the lower portion. The latter also ranged downwards, as may be seen from the following Table, into the lower red sand and clay, while the former did not.