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of the upper jaw from the cavern at Sandwich, described 

 by Prof. Goldfuss. 



l)r. Buckland* includes the molar teeth and a large 

 tusk of a boar found in the cave of Hutton in the Mendip 

 Hills, with the true fossils of that receptacle, such as the 

 remains of the Mammoth, Spelsean Bear, &c. With re- 

 spect to cave-bones, however, it is sometimes difficult to 

 produce conviction as to the contemporaneity of extinct 

 and recent species. MM. Croizet and Jobert, in their ac- 

 count of the fossils of Auvergne, give more satisfactory 

 evidence of the coexistence of the genus Sus with Elephas, 

 Mastodon, &c., by describing and figuring well-marked 

 fossils of a species of Hog, which they discovered in the 

 midst of their rich fossiliferous tertiary beds. These ob- 

 servers found, however, that the facial part of their fossil Hog 

 was relatively shorter than in the existing Sus scrofa, and 

 they have conceived it to represent a distinct species, which 

 they have called Aper (Sus) Arvernensis. Dr. Kaup has 

 described fossils referable to the genus Sus from the miocene 

 Eppelsheim sand, in which they were associated with fossils 

 of the Mastodon and Dinotherium. The oldest fossils of the 

 genus Sus from British strata which I have yet seen, are 

 portions of the external incisor of the lower jaw (fig. 173), 

 from fissures in the red crag (probably miocene) of New- 

 bourne near Woodbridge, Suffolk. They were associated 

 with teeth of an extinct Fells about the size of a Leopard, 

 with those of a Bear, and with remains of a large Cervus. 

 These mammalian remains were found with the ordinary 

 fossils of the red crag ; they had undergone the same pro- 

 cess of trituration, and were impregnated with the same 

 colouring matter as the associated bones and teeth of fishes 

 acknowledged to be derived from the regular strata of the 



* ' Reliquiae Diluvianae,' p. 59. 



