2 AX ACCOUNT OF THE ANIMAL REMAINS 



the vicinity of (he cave, from the size of some of the 

 teeth ; one of them at leas! must have been a^ed. 



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HORSE. It was doubted at first whether the 

 remains of an animal of this species were among 

 the collection : this doubt however has been remo- 

 ved, and it is thought that one horse might have 

 been the prey of those ravenous creatures. 



Ox. The number of the teeth of (his ruminating 



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animal were next to those of the Hyaena ; it ap- 

 pears that they had been more numerous in the 

 vicinity of the cave, and had been not only an easy 

 prey, but the favourite food of these savage depre- 

 dators. 



DEER. There were different snecies of this 

 animal, perhaps three the fallow deer, the elk, and 

 the stag or red deer. 



HARE, and RABBIT. The remains of the Hare 

 and Rabbit are scarce ; a few broken jaws, and a 

 few thigh bones, are all which belong to them. 



WATER RAT. The teeth and jaws of the wa- 

 ter rat were more numerous than those of any o- 

 ther animal ; they were found in every part of the 

 cave, and in every association ; wherever there was 

 a piece of osseous breccia, they formed a part of it ; 

 some pieces were made up entirely of them, hun- 

 dreds of jaws and teeth compose one mass; most 

 of the jaws which had not been injured by the Hy- 

 aenas, which are supposed to have devoured the 

 other part of them, were perfect ; and the detached 

 teeth which perhaps fell through the lips of the 

 Hyaenas when devouring the rats, were perfect; and 

 some of them broken, as if snapped by the teeth of 



