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| “a, Rhinoceros ; molar tooth, one third size. 6, Hippopotamus ; worn molar tooth. Also from 
Kirkdale. 
Nearly forty species of extinct Pachydérmata are found in 
the upper deposits of the Paris environs. Among them are 
numerous skeletons resembling tapirs and camels, some other 
species of rhinoceroses and the new genus Palseothéria, and 
three or four others. 
a, Molar tooth of ox,on a reduced scale; 6, molar tooth of large species of deer, upper jaw, full 
size; c, molar tooth of horse, full size. Kirkdale. 
Solipedes. — Bones of the horse (#*quus) are found in similiar 
situations to the foregoing, and were therefore contempora- 
neous with those extinct Pachydérmata. 
Ruminantia, or Bistlca, are commonly asscciated with the 
preceding. 
Remains of the ox, the aurochs or bison, and several species 
of deer, were observed in the cave of Kirkdale. They have 
been found in the marl of Northcliff in the same county ; 
also above the crag beds of Suffolk, and in the peaty valleys 
of Norfolk. ae are often taken up by the oy ster-dredgers 
on the same coast. At Brentford, Ilford, Gravesend, and 
numerous ae of the vale of Thames, they are abundant ; 
in fact, they occur, more or less, in all the great diluvial 
