The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races

Emory Adams Allen

Capitolo 89

direction of a committee named by the British association,
and to show the care and completeness of the job we only have need
you affirm that this job occupied the greatest portion of sixteen
years, and from now the gotten results you/they can be concerned as, in a
general way, illustrative of the life of the cave dwellers.
"This cavern is on an east mile of the I bring of Torquay, and it is of a
sinuous character, meeting himself/herself/itself deeply with a hill of Devonian
limestone, on half a distant mile from the sea. In places it
it expands in the great rooms to that the various distinctive names
you/he/she has been given."<3>

I/you/he/she allow us to see that resulted general they have been arrived from this
committee. The investigation disclosed many different beds of
stalagmite, earth of cavern and breach. The lowest layer is a
breach.<4 >  The matrix is sand of a reddish color, while containing
many pieces of stone known as the red-sandstone and of the pieces of quartz.
This implicates the presence to race water that to durations
washed in pieces of the red-sandstone. The characteristics of surface have to have
rather different state from the present, since now this stone
not the form some part of the hill in which this cavern opens.<5>
And these changes in drainage took place in front of this lower layer
you/he/she was completed, since not only bears but men, started for visiting
the cavern. The presence of bears has shown from numerous bones, and
that of man from his/her utensils.


Illustration of Lance-head--Breach Lower, the Cavern in Kent.---


We have to notice that all the utensils found in the breach it is
similar to those of the Motion, rudely being formed and thick.
Without doubt these are the rests of men of Motion that, for of the cause
or other, temporarily visited the cavern, while perhaps contending with
the bear of cavern for his/her possession. But once arrived for a long time
when for of the reason animals neither men, visited the cavern.
The slow accumulation of stalagmite went in ahead up to that in some
places you/he/she had gotten a bigness of twelve feet. Freely
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