332 RHINOCEROS. 
The bony partition-wall, with its peculiar anterior termi- 
nation,* is well displayed in some of the entire skulls of the 
tichorhine Rhinoceros, which have been discovered in this 
country. One of these, figured by Cuvier, ‘ Ossemens 
Fossiles, 4to., 1822, tom. ii., pt. 1., pl. ix., fig. 3, was 
found in a slate-pit at Stonesfield in Oxfordshire, about 
four miles from Woodstock. Dr. Buckland possesses fine 
specimens of the skulls and other bones of the same 
extinct Rhinoceros, which were discovered, associated with 
remains of the Mammoth, Hyena, &e., in the drift on 
the banks of the Avon, at Lawford, near Rugby. 
The most complete skeletons have been found, as might 
be expected, in caverns or cavernous fissures, where the 
carcass of the fallen animal has been best protected from 
external changes and movements of the soil. 
Dr. Buckland has recorded one of the most remarkable 
examples of this kind, which was brought to light in 
the operation of sinking a shaft through solid mountain 
limestone (fig. 130, r), in a mining operation for lead- 
ore near Wirksworth, Derbyshire.f A natural cavern 
(7b. c) was thus laid open, which had become filled to 
the roof with a confused mass of argillaceous earth and 
fragments of stone, and had communicated with the sur- 
face by a fissure (7. B) fifty-eight feet deep and six feet 
broad, similarly filled to the top, where the outlet (7. a) 
had been concealed by the vegetation. Near the bottom 
of this fissure, but in the midst of the drift (7b. p), and 
raised by many feet of the same material from the floor 
of the cavern, was found nearly the whole skeleton of 
a Rhinoceros (74. £), with the bones almost in their natural 
* The name imposed by Cuvier on the present extinct species of Rhinoceros 
has reference to this structure: it is from reiyos, a wall, fly, a nose: tichorhinus. 
+ ©Reliquiz Diluvianz,’ p. 61. 
