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elevated than in the Brown, or Alpine variety, and 
the flattened forehead passes into the nose with a less 
sensible concavity than in the skull of the Fen Bear (jig. 
24). The coronoid process of the lower jaw is rather 
broader and higher, and the interval between the ante- 
penultimate molar and the canine tooth is longer. 
By the latter character, a very interesting fossil of a 
Bear, from the cavern called “ Kent’s Hole,” near Torquay, 
Devon, is referable to the Ursus priscus, heretofore only 
known from the German cave-depositaries of Ursine remains. 
The British fossil consists of a large proportion of a lower 
jaw, with the incisors, canines, and the entire series of 
molar teeth on both sides. The most perfect ramus is 
figured from the outside at Cut 25, and beneath it the 
entire right ramus of the lower jaw of the existing Euro- 
pean species, for the illustration of the last cited character 
of the greater relative length of the interspace between 
the antepenultimate molar and the canine in the JU. 
priscus. The persistent premolar in front of the ante- 
penultimate molar is in place, and the socket of the first 
small single premolar is distinctly preserved in the fossil, 
thus manifesting a well marked character by which the 
Ursus priscus resembles the Ursus Arctos, and differs from 
the Ursus speleus ; in which, at least, that molar is most 
commonly wanting, and its socket obliterated. The trace 
of a socket of a second small single-fanged premolar is 
visible in the jaw from Kent’s Hole near the large pre- 
molar, with which the series of grinding teeth commences, 
and, in the Gailenreuth specimen, the corresponding small 
premolar is retained in the upper jaw. 
The absorbent condition of the fossil jaw from Kent's 
Hole hardly permits a doubt that it is of the same anti- 
quity as the remains of the gigantic Ursus speleus, found 
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