THEORY OF THE EARTH. 



have seen in a cave in France, a rhinoceros and a 

 reindeer by the side of each other. 



Bears are of rare occurrence in alluvial strata. 

 Remains of the large species of the caves ( U. 

 spelceus), are said, however, to have been found in 

 Austria and Hainaut ; and in Tuscany there are 

 bones of a particular species, remarkable for its 

 compressed canine teeth (U. cultridens) *. The 

 hyenas are more frequently met with. We have 

 remains of them in France, found along with 

 bones of elephants and rhinoceroses. A cave has 

 lately been discovered in England, which con- 

 tained prodigious quantities of them, where they 

 were found of every age, and of which the soil 

 presented even their excrements in a sufficient 

 state of preservation to be easily recognised. It 

 would appear that they had long lived there, and 

 that it had been by them that the bones of ele- 

 phants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, horses, oxen, 

 deer, and various animals of the class of glires, 

 which are found along with them, and which bear 

 evident marks of their teeth, had been dragged 

 into the cave. But what must have been the 

 soil of England, when these enormous animals 

 lived upon it, and constituted the prey of fero- 

 cious beasts ! These caves contain also bones of 



* See my " Researches/' vol. iv. p. 378 and 507 ; and 

 vol. v. part ii. p. 516. 



