192 Rev. Mr. Buckland’s Account of Fossil Teeth and [Serr. 
fallen in during that earlier period in which the bears occupied 
the caves of Germany, and the hyenas that in Yorkshire; for 
some of the animals found at Kirkdale seem to agree in species 
with those that occur in the fissures; but as they are at the 
same time not distinguishable from existing species, the argu- 
ment arising from this resemblance is imperfect. The discovery 
of the extinct elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, and 
hyzna in this breccia, should it ever be made, would be decisive 
of the question. 
For an account of the bones accumulated in these fissures, I 
must again refer to the works of M. Cuvier, which contain more 
sound and clear philosophical reasoning on the early state of 
habitation on our planet, and a more valuable collection of 
authentic facts relating to the history of its fossil animals of the 
higher orders, than can be found in all the books that have ever 
yet been written on the subject. 
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APPENDIX. 
It was mentioned, when speaking of Gailenreuth, that human 
remains had been discovered there in the same cave with the 
bones of antediluvian animals, but that they are of comparatively 
low antiquity. 
Three analogous cases have been noticed in this country in 
cavities of mountain limestone, at Burringdon, in Somersetshire, 
and in Glamorganshire and Caermarthenshire ; and these also 
are attended by circumstances which indicate them to be of 
post-diluvian origin. 
]. The discovery of human bones incrusted with stalactite, in 
a cave of mountain limestone at Burringdon, in the Mendip 
hills, is explained, by this cave having either been used as a 
place of sepulture in early times, or been resorted to for refuge 
by wretches that perished in it, when the country was suffering 
under one of the numerous military operations which, in different 
periods of our early history, have been conducted in that quar- 
ter. The mouth of this cave was nearly closed by stalactite, 
and many of the bones were incrusted with it. In the instance 
of a skull, it had covered the inside as well as the outside of the 
bone ; and I have a fragment from the inside, which bears in 
relief casts of the channel of the veins along the interior of the 
skull. The state of these bones affords indications of very high 
antiquity ; but there is no reason for not considering them post- 
diluvian. Mr. Skinner, on examination of this cave, found the 
bones disposed chiefly in a recess on one side, as in a sepulchral 
catacomb ; and in the same neighbourhood, at Wellow, there 
is a large artificial catacomb of high antiquity, covered by a 
barrow, and constructed after the manner of that at New Grange, 
near Slane, in the county of Meath, of stones successively over- 
Japping each other till they meet in the roof. In this were 
