1824.] the Formation of the KivMale Cave. 57 



them towards the north, those of the ; smaller animals as .the 

 water-rats must have been so completely decayed as to be 

 reduced to the bones solely, which water would not float. 



The vo\ ai f r0 m the tropics of the balls of album gr^cum in 

 an enti k 'state, is what will not, under any circumstances, be 

 easy to admit to suppose it amidst » turbulent vortices by 



vh?ch the framework 1 ^ the ^ u ™*™»* A 'jfi£F*i 



Fractured within the integuments,' reduced to splmeis, is 

 ,HWv impossible The entire state of the balls of album ghg- 

 cum ^nd the extremely fractured one of the bones are total y 

 ^connatible on Mr. Perm's system . And such an ablution would 

 ot have e tin these balls a trace of the triple phosphate. 

 % t Quad riped are not the only animals of tropical features 

 ItoSiS^ffiStatei. Every shell in the strata, the nau ; 

 Ui the comu ammones, the belemmtes the anomia are now as 

 foreiglr to t he surrounding seas, as are the others to the land. If 

 nnp thpn came from afar, both did. 



Wha must have been the mass and impetuosity of the wave 

 which could buoy a huge oyster, a massive brain stone from 

 Tli tquTor to tine British Islands, and ^ - ^tion to depo 

 sit it on Shotover Hill, or at Kingsweston ? Such MVM \1U* 

 tumbled down the mountains of the earth, shivered its islands 

 Z ^continents, and choked up the bed of A. .ocean w 

 their ruins. Surely it is a far less difficulty to bring me 

 mate to the exuviae, than the exuvue to the climate. 



The existence together of the bones of many species does not 

 nee ssitale the conclusion of the animals having been associates 

 m the cave. If hyamas « do not always resort to th au ue 

 den," neither is it probable do other wild beasts. A succession 

 of inhabitants is admissible. ™; 1Tin k whose 



Nor is it required to believe that any of J e animal, * hose 

 hones were found in the cave died there. It hyeenas conecc 

 ones' lounYLir dens, it must be ±ri™**$g$g&. 

 that they sometimes, often even, carry them a ^»™g 

 Alarmed by the roar of a more mighty devourer, or. even by Aa 

 of one of equal strength, it seems nataral o t em to : ct, eat 

 with their spoil to their last refuge Why, but to be able 

 this, do they bring them near their dens 



bones may have been carried into tne ca^ y 

 powerful than hyicnas. . , f i jj,i 



1 If animals as ravenous of bones as hya ; n,s ate sftld to « 

 not, many hour of dearth, devour those ot the watu-iats, maj 



