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jaw, one heel-bone, (caleaneum,) and several bones of the 
foot (metatarsals). These parts of the skeleton in the 
Wolf, are not distinguishable from those in the larger 
varieties of the Dog; and, since in the same cave the left 
side of a human skeleton was found, under a cover of six 
inches of earth, whilst a modern breccia has been formed, 
consisting of earth cemented by stalagmite, and containing 
shells of edible mollusks and birds’ bones of existing spe- 
cies, the analogical probability that the canine remains 
were those of a Wolf is not so great as in the case of the 
fossils from Kirkdale. 
In the enormous quarry at Oreston, near Plymouth, 
produced by the removal of an entire hill of limestone for 
the construction of the breakwater, there is an artificial 
cliff, ninety-three feet above high-water mark, the face of 
which is perforated and intersected by large irregular cracks 
and cavities, which are more or less filled up with loam, 
sand, or stalactite. These apertures are sections of fissures 
and caverns that have been laid open in working away the 
body of the rock, and are disposed in it after the manner 
of chimney flues in a wall.* The most remarkable of these 
cavernous fissures have been successively described by Mr. 
Whidbey, the engineer of the breakwater, in the Philoso- 
phical Transactions for 1817, 1821, and 1823. The vig- 
nette (fig. 50) is copied from one of the illustrations of the 
latest of those memoirs. In the gallery, or cavern, marked 
B, were found several bones and teeth of a species of Canis, 
identical in size and other characters with those from the 
eaves of Kirkdale and Paviland, and not distinguishable 
from those of the recent Wolf. The chief of these re- 
mains, with the associated fossils, and those from neigh- 
* Buckland, “ Reliquize Diluyiane,” p. 68. 
