THE DAMAN. 



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Almost every bone-cavern in England, France, and 

 Germany has afforded them in abundance ; and Dr. 

 JBuckland proves that there must have been a long suc- 

 cession of years in which the elephant, hippopotamus, 

 and rhinoceros, with the hyaena, inhabited our island ; 

 and that the former, as the bones testify, became the 

 prey of the latter, or were devoured alter natural or 

 accidental death. 



The Daman, or Hybax. 



When we look at the rabbit-like hyrax, it does not sur- 

 prise us to find that all the older naturalists regarded it 

 as a Rodent, and placed it in that order. It was reserved 



Skull of Daman, 



for Cuvier to point out its true situation. "There is no 

 quadruped," says this great man, " which proves more 

 forcibly than the daman the necessity of having recourse 

 to anatomy, as a test by which to determine the true re- 

 lationship of animals." This fur-covered active creature 



