46 Mr Wayne on Dr Knox's Observations, fyc. 



only at a time lived in it, say a male and female alternately, 

 each during the space of ten years, and then died in it ; that 

 the female brought forth two young ones annually for six 

 years, and that one only out of four died in the cave, or 

 was dragged into it ; and we shall have hyaenas enough to 

 account for the accumulation of bones in the Kirkdale cave. 



Dr Knox asserts, too, that these bones " have never been 

 fractured by hyaenas, they have been broken by great exter- 

 nal violence, and not by the agency of the teeth of living ani- 

 mals ; and they do not differ in any respect from the bones 

 found at Oreston and elsewhere, which bear no such marks of 

 violence." 



I confess I do not quite see the force of this remark. Is it 

 meant that the bones at Oreston bear no marks of violence ? 

 This would be nothing to the purpose ; or does it mean " no 

 such marks of violence ?" That is, the bones at Oreston bear 

 certain marks of violence, whilst those at Kirkdale exhibit 

 marks of violence proceeding from a different cause — from the 

 agency, for instance, of the teeth of hyaenas. But on this 

 point, page 76 of the Relic. Diluv., appears to me conclusive. 



Dr Knox proceeds, " But the truth is, that we have evi- 

 dence in the nature of the relics themselves, subversive of Mr 

 Buckland's speculations on these subjects. 1st, The bones 

 found in the cave at Kirkdale do not bear the marks of hav- 

 ing been broken by hyaenas, but of having been dashed to 

 pieces, and exposed to the action of water."* Now this is mere- 

 ly a matter of opinion to be determined by a careful examina- 

 tion of the bones themselves ; and this examination was a 

 matter of too great importance for Dr Buckland to have over- 

 looked; for it will be seen in page 7» that the doctor says, "in 

 the interior of the cave, I could not find a single rolled pebble, 

 nor have I seen, in all the collections which have been taken 

 from it, one bone, or fragment of bone, that bears the slightest 

 mark of having been rolled by the action of water." " On 



" An ingenious friend, who examined some of the bones lately discover- 

 ed, remarked, that one of them was so nearly worn through by the corro- 

 sion which it had uudergone, that the effect could not possibly have been 

 produced by the teeth of an animal, without the bone being broken- This 

 fact merits particular attention.— Ed- 



