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and lodged by any other accidental cause in more mo- 

 dern times, inasmuch as they are always found with 

 the other animal remains, under the same relations, not 

 constituting connected skeletons, but gathered in various 

 groups," &c. Beside those of man, of different periods 

 of life, from infancy to mature age, the bones of Rhino- 

 ceros, a great Feline, Hyaena, Horse, Ox, Deer, Hare, 

 and Rabbit ; bones of an Owl were found ; and, since 

 the paper of the Baron was published, portions of a 

 small Elephant, of Elk and Reindeer ; facts, which, in 

 this case as in others, confirm the coexistence of spe- 

 cies in the present zoology, on the same area.* 



Of man, fragments are in the possession of the Prince 

 of Reuss, Baron von Schlotheim, Dr. Schotte, and other 

 individuals residing near the spot ; and Mr. Fairholme, 

 who went purposely to Saxony, to convince himself of 

 the facts, by careful examination of the locality, brought 

 home specimens, which he presented to the British 

 Museum. It appears, that all the bones are not precisely 

 entombed within the caverns or the fissures, since a 

 fragment of an arm, and a thigh-bone of a man, were 

 dug out of the clay at eighteen feet of depth, and eight 

 feet below two phalanges of a Rhinoceros. 



As the facts relating to the coexistence of human 

 remains, with the bones of a mostly extinct mamma- 

 logy can no longer be denied, it remains to be ascer- 



* Cuvier remarked the coexistence of Elk, in all respects 

 appearing to be identical with the present, the Asiatic Ele- 

 phant, and other tropical animals in the same deposits. 



