numbers of separate teeth, and jaws of large animals of the ox and deer tribe, with parts of deer-horn in various stages of growth, with the teeth and jaws of dog or wolf, and remnants of early rude British or Romano-British pottery, and among these, the skulls of (apparently) hedgehogs, and great numbers of perfect specimens of the tender Helix nemoralis. This circumstance (the tender shell being unbroken), and the pulpy sandy state of the earth, led to the early conclusion that water, by slow degrees, had been the agent exerted in carrying in the shells at least, which must have floated and gradually subsided in the soft pulp, whilst the water became drained off by the porous and fissured nature of the rock.
   Over these bones and shells, a few feet above the base, irregular blocks of chalk (on which might be traced the mark of a tool worked by the hand of man), with huge flints interspersed with tertiary round pebbles, in mass a foot or two in thickness, were lying compact, in conelike form, highest in the centre; and the earth above, as well as below the arched chalk mass, was striped in corresponding cone-like form, it was observed, as if a small stream of water had slowly and gradually fallen from above on the centre, carrying with it the debris it met with in its passage. Above this layer of chalk and large flint, the perfect shells (yet exhibiting, in some instances, striped bands of delicate colour) again largely appeared, with jaw-bones and teeth of ox, deer, dog or wolf, and remnants of rude pottery: most were found around the edges. On one side of the cavity was doubled up the nearly complete skeleton of a hog, and above it, also in a contorted position, doubled up, the skeleton of a small horse or ass, the coffin-bones being perfect.
   Openings had been made on each side of the chalk cavity, and when the earth from below had been removed within arm's-reach of the spades and tools employed,