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The last column in the above Table represents the species found by Mr. Mello in 1875.

Human implements of various sorts were met with in intimate association with the fossil animals in all the deposits under the stalagmite; and large quantities of broken bones testified to the presence of Man, just as the gnawed bones proved that of the Hyænas in the cave. In the strata above the Red Sand there were fragments of charcoal and of calcined bone.

As may be seen from the following Table of distribution of works of Man, there is the same distinction to be observed here as in the Robin-Hood Cave between the implements of the upper and lower strata. From the former were obtained all the implements of bone, antler, and flint; while in the latter we only discovered a few implements of the rudest kind, made of quartzite.

Articles of Bone and Antler.—The articles made of bone are as follows:—

1. A well-shaped needle (fig. 4), absolutely perfect, made out of a metacarpal or tarsal bone of a ruminant, and larger than any of those figured from the palæolithic caves of France, Belgium, or Switzerland.