372 Antediluvian Zoology. 
deposits of this country, and in the valleys through which our 
great rivers pass. 
Skulls of the Bés U‘rus at Walton Naze, Woolwich, Ilford, 
&e. 
The great fossil elk of Ireland is found in peat bogs and 
gravel beds. Some of these skeletons have been met with, 
though rarely, in England, at Walton and in Holderness. 
Cérvus L’ laphus, or ted deer ; common in diluvial gravel of 
the eastern counties. 
Cérvus Dama, or fallow deer ; traced occasionally in similar 
situations. 
Cérvus Capréolus, or antelope ; near Ipswich, and at Roy- 
don, Norfolk. 
Rodéntia, or Gnawers. — Of this order the Kirkdale cave 
alone yielded to the researches of Dr. Buckland the genera 
hare, rabbit, rat, water-rat, and mouse. (fz. 99.) 
Incisors, ascribed to the beaver, 
99 ¢ have been noticed in the crag. 
= Of Quadrumanous animals. there 
bo ONY exist no known traces in this or any 
other part of the globe, either of the 
pe ony ee eae SOLE eG monkey, or the human species. 
water-rat, From Kirkdale. In alluvial deposits, calcareous in- 
crustations, peat formations, mines, 
and volcanic débris, human bones and their accompaniments 
have frequently been discovered, bearing evidence of very 
high antiquity; but they are all referable to more recent 
times than the deluge, and may be explained by similar events 
of ordinary occurrence. 
No works of art, or other indications of the former exist- 
ence of man, occur in diluvial or tertiary beds. We are there- 
fore led to unite in the opinion that he is among * the most 
recent tenants of the globe,” coincident with the oldest records 
and traditions of his race; and that the time in which he has 
inhabited the earth*forms but a trifling portion of its absolute 
duration. 
Whether man was coeval with the mastodons, the mam- 
moths, and other mighty animals that once ranged the earth, 
and left their faces on so large a part of its Pcurtiees is an 
enquiry which there seems little probability will ever be solved. 
At present we have only the negative fact, that no human 
remains have been discovered of equal antiquity with those 
extinct races of animals of which we have made brief mention 
in this imperfect sketch. 
RCs Ty 
