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neral result of these having been to diminish the 

 supply of food and shelter required by the large 

 vegetable feeders, which anciently formed a most 

 important part of its inhabitants. 



A very large round-antlered deer, whose head was 

 of greater size than that of the Megaceros, is found 

 in England to have been contemporaneous with this 

 latter species and with the cavern animals ; and with 

 these were also associated the red deer, the rein-deer, 

 and a nearly allied but distinct species of about the 

 same dimensions, the modern fallow deer, and the 

 roebuck. 



Lastly, we find, in addition to these land Mam- 

 malia, whose remains are common, that there 

 are also indications of the larger marine tribes of 

 the same great natural order. The bones of the 

 extremities and portions of the vertebral column 

 are among the fossils of this kind found in the 

 gravel; and in the cliifs of Suffolk and Norfolk, in 

 f . 141 the newer and per- 



haps middle tertiaries, 

 below the gravel, frag- 

 ments have been found 

 which are recognised 

 as ear-bones of ceta- 

 cean animals of various 

 WHALE'S EAR-BONE. species and very dif- 



ferent size. I annex a figure of one of these. 



In tracing the peculiarities of structure and habits 

 of these animals, and in describing as almost con- 

 temporaneous those strange and remarkable pachy- 

 dermatous genera, the Dinotherium, the Palseothe- 

 rium, the Mastodon, and the elephant: associated 



