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cies ; and here we find it twice associated with an animal of the South of 

 Africa. This same animal is found too associated with bears, which at 

 present exist only in the north. At what time, then, he asks, was it that 

 the elephants and the hyenas of the Cape, of the size of our bears, lived 

 together in our climate, and were shaded by forests of palms, and in which 

 they took shelter in caverns along with bears as large as our horses? 



The remains of a very large animal of the genus Felis also exist in 

 great numbers in these caverns. Those of Hungary have been described 

 and figured by Vollgnad, Ephem. Nat. Cur. An. 4, Dec. i. and Leibnitz 

 gives the portion of a skull, Protog. PL xi. Fig. 1. This skull, which 

 has been examined, and compared with the utmost degree of precision 

 by M. Soemmerring with the skulls of the bear of the cavern and of the 

 lion, is found by that celebrated anatomist to agree with that of the lion 

 of a moderate size, and to differ from that of the bear of the caverns in 

 thirty-six different points. But it is remarked by M. Cuvier, that the 

 greater part of these points of difference are referable to every animal of 

 the genus Felis, as well as to the lion. Esper has given the figures of 

 several teeth, which resemble those of some feline animal, and which he 

 obtained from the caverns of Gaylenreuth. M. Cuvier has also obtained, 

 from Gaylenreuth, the second upper grinder; and, by favour of Mr. A. 

 Camper, the half of a lower jaw, wanting only the condyle and the an- 

 tepenultimate grinder of some animal of the same genus. 



To determine to what species this jaw belongs, M. Cuvier justly ob- 

 serves, is by no means easy. " I venture to say," he adds, " that it 

 would be impossible, without the numerous means of comparison which 

 I have had the happiness of bringing together." By these opportunities 

 he has been enabled to determine that this piece belonged to neither the 

 lion, lioness, nor tiger, and still less to the leopard and small panther, as 

 it is called ; and that if it must be referred to a living species, it can only 

 be to the jaguar, or great spotted panther of South America. 



Among the bones of Gaylenreuth which had undergone a considerable 

 change, and which were invested with the same tufous matter as the 



