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MR. SMITH has entirely failed to substantiate the statement made by him in his letter of December 1 (p. 105) concerning the drift over the entrance of the Cae Gwyn Cave, which is 20 feet in thickness and full of ice-scratched boulders, many of large size; therefore I need only say in reply that the Geological Surveyors who surveyed this district have examined the section and have had no hesitation whatever in classifying the deposits in the section with the Glacial beds of the area. In regard to the age of river-drift implements as compared with those found in the cavern, which are identical with the implements found in Kent's cavern and the French caves, I need only quote the remarks of M. Lartet (“Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ,” p. 9):—“If some are inclined to attribute to the works of human industry found in the ‘Diluvium’ or ‘Drift’ a date more ancient than to those occurring in caves with a similar association of animal remains, we are obliged to remark that such a proposition, expressed as a systematic generalization, is not justifiable in any point of view.” … “Caves were in truth the first shelter which primitive man would choose, whether driven by instinct or determined by reason.”
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HICKS, H. The Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves. Nature 37, 202 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037202a0
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