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past, incredible quantities have been removed and 

 destroyed, on account of certain medical virtues 

 which had been attributed to them, and yet there 

 still remains enough to fill the mind with asto- 

 nishment. The principal part of these remains 

 consists of bones of a very large species of bear 

 (Ursus spelceus), which is characterised by a 

 more prominent forehead than that of any of our 

 living bears *. Along with these bones are found 

 those of two other species of bear f 17. arctoideus 

 and U. prisons) f; those of a hyena (H.fossilis), 

 allied to the spotted hyena of the Cape, but dif- 

 fering from it in the form of its teeth and head J; 

 those of two tigers or panthers , of a wolf ||, a 

 fox 5r> a glutton **, as well as of weasels, viver- 

 rae, and other small carnivora ff . 



Here, also, may be observed that singular asso- 

 ciation of animals, the species resembling which 

 live at the present day in climates so widely se- 

 parated from each other as the Cape, the coun- 

 try of the spotted hyena, and Lapland, the coun- 

 try of our present gluttons. In like manner we 



* See my " Researches/' vol. iv. p. 351. 

 t Id. vol. iv. p, 356 and 357. J Id. vol. iv. p. 392. and 507. 

 Id. vol. iv. p. 452. || Id. vol. iv. 458. IT Id. voL iv. p. 461 . 

 ** Id. vol. iv. p. 475. ft Id. vol. iv. p. 467. 



