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at least as far south as Gailenreuth, in Bavaria, where it was first discovered by Dr. Goldfuss. It is figured 

 and described from the Caves of Belgium by Dr. Schmerling. We might therefore naturally expect to find 

 the animal ranging over our Island at a time when it formed part of the mainland of Europe, and offered 

 free access to the same animals (the Reindeer, the Lemming, and the Horse) as those which still furnish 

 food to the living Glutton in Siberia. The presence in Great Britain of a creature adapted for enduring the 

 severity of an Arctic winter, and not now found in any hot regions, with the Reindeer, Lemming, and 

 Musk-sheep, implies that the Pleistocene winters were of an Arctic severity, just as the Hippopotamus, 

 found under precisely the same conditions, and associated with the same group of animals, points to a hot 

 summer like that which obtains on the Lower Volga. The intimate association in one spot of animals 

 now confined respectively to the hottest and coldest regions seems to me admit of no other explanation." 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, vol. xxvii. p. 409. 



