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lenreuth. This mud, and the bones which it contains, 

 are, in various places, covered or penetrated with stalac- 

 tite, especially near places where the rock has lateral 

 fissures. 



The discovery having acquired much celebrity, a great 

 number of people procured bones from it, and placed 

 them in various public depots. Specimens have been de- 

 posited in the York Institution, that of Whitby and 

 Bristol, the British Museum, the Museum of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, and by Mr Young of Whitby, in the College 

 Museum of Edinburgh ; but the finest collection of the 

 bones of Kirkdale was presented to Cuvier, and by him de- 

 posited in the Royal Cabinet in Paris. The greatest num- 

 ber of these bones without comparison, belong to hyenas 

 of the same species as those of the caverns of Germany ; 

 but there are also many of other large and small animals, 

 which Mr Buckland supposes to form twenty-one spe- 

 cies. From the pieces which I have under my eye, says 

 Cuvier, there indisputably occur bones of the elephant, 

 hippopotamus ', liorse, an ox of the size of the common 

 deer, rabbits, Jield-rats ; also bones of some other car- 

 nivora, namely, of the tiger, wolf, fox, and weasel. All 

 these bones and teeth are accumulated on the ground, 

 broken and gnawed, and there are even seen marks of the 

 teeth which have fractured them. There are even inter- 

 mixed with them excrements which have been recognized 

 as perfectly similar to those of the hyena *. 



In England and Wales the following caves have been found to 

 contain fossil bones : 



1. Cave in Dunc&mbe Paris, not far from that of Kirkdale. It 

 contains only recent bones. 



2. Cave of Hutton, a village in Somersetshire, at the foot of the 



