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all perfect ; by its siele another jaw, in which the teeth are 

 worn out almost to the socket ; and again a third jaw, in 

 which the teeth remain undeveloped. You have evidence 

 of individuals of the tiger species of all ages. Here, re- 

 mains of the tiger that raay have died of old age in his 

 den ; close by, of the tiger's cub that may have died in its 

 infancy. How is it possible to resist the inference to which 

 these facts lead, and doubt that the tigers lived here? 

 Tbe remains of the elephant found in these caverns lead to 

 the same conclusion. Here we have the tooth of an 

 elephant bearing the most unequivocal marks of old age ; 

 and here the fangless tooth, in fact, the undeveloped milk- 

 tooth of a baby-elephant. Are we not, therefore, more 

 than justified in believing that the old animals lived, and 

 that their young ones were born near to the places where 

 their bones are now found? 



Not only the worn-out condition of the teeth of the 

 beasts of prey, but also the State and condition of the 

 bones of herbiverous animals which constituted their food, 

 most clearly prove that the caverns of the Mcndips were 

 not merely the mausoleums of the dead but the haunts of 

 the living. By the side of the powerful jaws of the hyama, 

 you find the bones of an ox, bearing the marks of the 

 hyaena's teeth. These were its food. The cracked bones 

 of the ox and the deer, found now in these caverns, are the 

 bones of animals carried into the wild beasts' lair, and there 

 devoured. These facts would have been enough if they 

 stood by themselves ; but the question is placed far beyond 

 the possibility of a doubt, by the coprolites which have 

 been found in these caverns, the droppings of the animals 

 by which the caves were frequented. This proves most 

 clearly, that the animals to which these bones belonged 

 were living in this county, and in these caves. 



Having proeeeded thus far, and established, I assume, 



