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merits ofjaws, were more in number than of any 

 other, except the tvater rat : this is not surprising 

 when \ve consider them as the masters of the den, 

 and the destroyers of the other animals, whose re- 

 mains were discovered among them. 



H is probable that more than three Hundred of 

 that species had died at Kirkdale, as the mud that 

 wis thrown out of the cave before the bones and 

 teeth were thought so valuable, beina: turned over 



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and over afterwards by men, women, and children 

 in quest of bones, great numbers were picked out 

 by them. I have in an evening 1 purchased lots of 

 live or six person?, who had been the whole of the 

 day in collecting them : the colour of these was in- 

 jured :>y their having been exposed to the wet. I 

 was told by one of the workmen, that when this mud 

 was first thrown out of the cave, after every shower 

 of rain which had washed away the mud from the 

 teeth, the surface of it was studded with them. A 

 quantity of it was afterwards thrown into Hodge- 

 beck, and after every flood numbers were found 

 there ; tusks, molar teeth, also canine and incisor 

 ones, were all plentiful. 



TIGER. Of this animal but few remains were 

 discovered, three or four large canine teeth, and a 

 few molar ones,, so that there had been but one ani- 

 mal probably of this species. 



UKAR. The bones of the bear were also scarce; 

 I have seen four tusks of this animal, one of which 

 I bought of a person whose son digged it out from 

 amongst the rubbish before named, at the price of 

 one Guinea and a half; it is now in the possession 



