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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
.Feb. 4,
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Fig. 2. — Transverse Section in the Antrum of Woohey Hole.
a. Roof.
b. Red earth, containing a large quantity of stones, and but
few organic remains, 2 feet in thickness, and extending
within 1 or 2 inches of the roof.
c. Red earth, with irregular layers of album grsecuni and
peroxide of manganese, and containing the Elephant's
tusk, together with teeth, and numerous splinters of
bone ; 7 to 8 inches.
d. Red earth, containing stones and a few organic remains ;
4. feet.
e. Floor, woi*n by water and corroded by carbonic acid.
On the right-hand side of the cave we found some more imple-
ments, at the spot marked c in fig. 1, underlying layers of peroxide
of manganese and comminuted bone, as in the case of those which I
described in my former paper.
Fig. 3. — Longitudinal Section in the Antrum of Woohey Hole.
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d.
Grey clay, containing stones,
but no bones *.
Red earth, containing
stones and bones.
The longitudinal section (fig. 3), taken along the line marked 3 — 3
in the ground-plan (fig. 1), shows the relation which the flints of
area c held to the contents of the cave — the scattered bones and
stones, — the complete filling-up of the cave to its roof, and the
change in the colour of the sediment in, and the absence of organic
remains from, the vertical passage F, described in my former paper.
We had now cleared out every portion of the antrum except that
between A and F, and had found that the contents extended up to
the roof everywhere except in this latter localit)', where there was
an interval of from three to four inches. This interval was traversed
by stalactites, which formed in some places a smooth undulating-
drapery with stony tassels, in others miniature pillars extending
down to the debris and, as it were, propping up the roof. Their
pedestals, as they gradually expanded upon the debris, formed round
plates of stalagmite, and, where they met, became a continuous

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