102 URSID.E. 



With respect to the larger Carnivora, Dr. Buckland has 

 well observed that, "it is more probable that the Hyaenas 

 found their dead carcases, and dragged them to the den, 

 than that they were ever joint tenants of the same cavern."" 

 It is, however, obvious, he adds, that they were all con- 

 temporaneous inhabitants of ancient Yorkshire.* 



In the bone-cavern lately explored on Durdham Down, 

 near Bristol, Mr. Stutchbury determined, amongst the 

 remains of the Carnivorous animals, one Bear and eleven or 

 twelve individual Hysenas. 



In the cave at Paviland, in the lofty limestone cliff facing 

 the sea on the coast of Glamorganshire, the following parts 

 of a large species of Bear are enumerated by Dr. Buck- 

 land : Many molar teeth; two canines; the symphysial 

 end of two lower jaws, exhibiting the sockets of the incisor 

 teeth and of the canines, the latter are more than three 

 inches deep ; a humerus nearly entire; many vertebrae ; two 

 ossa calcis ; metacarpal and metatarsal bones. 



At Oreston, on the coast of Devonshire, several caverns 

 or cavernous fissures were discovered during the quarrying of 

 the limestone rock for the construction of the breakwater at 

 Plymouth. The first of these, described in the Philoso- 

 phical Transactions for 1817, contained the bones of a 

 species of Rhinoceros ; in the second, a smaller cavern 

 distant one hundred and twenty yards from the former, 

 and described in the Philosophical Transactions for 1821, 

 were found, associated with the tooth of a Rhinoceros 

 and parts of a deer, some teeth and bones of a species of 

 Ursus. 



The fossils referable to the Bear here discovered, include 

 a canine tooth, left side, lower jaw ; a canine tooth, left 

 side, upper jaw ; the penultimate grinder, right side, upper 

 * Reliquiae Diluvianae, p. 35. 



