CAUSE FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE TRADITION OF THE FLOOD. 2G9 



Teeth. 



Jaws. 



Vertebr<B and 

 portions of 

 skulls and 



bones more or 

 less perfect. 



Fragments of 



bones without 



distinct 



characters. 



Cave tiger 

 Cave hya?na 

 Wild boar 

 Fossil horse 

 Ox 

 Deer 



Wolf .... 

 Fox 

 Hare 

 Water rat 



1,587 



147 



279 



1,000 



Reindeer 



Bear (two species). 



Bison. 



In addition to the above, there have since been found by 

 later observers, remains of — 



Mammoth. 



Rhinoceros (two species). 



Hippopotamus. 



Human remains are also reported to have been found in one 

 of the fissures, but this wants confirmation. 



These fissures are sometimes spoken of as bone-caves, but 

 the condition of the bones is entirely different from those 

 found in true bone-caves, where they are in greater part 

 more or less gnaioed In/ carnivora, and also from those found in 

 river deposits, where they are more or less rolled; but they 

 agree exactly both in species mid condition with those found in 

 the Head or Rubble-drift, In both instances they are almost 

 all broken, and the fractured surfaces retain their sharp 

 angles ; in both the bones occur detached and without order, 

 and in both land-shells are occasionally found. It is to be 

 inferred from this that the two deposits are closely related, 

 though occurring under different conditions — not, however, 

 so different in reality as in form — the one having been 

 drifted into rents on the surface, and the other swept into 

 hollows or over the face of old sea cliffs Avhicli were 

 thereby swamped and hidden. 



The structure of the Rubble-drift, as exhibited in the Head 

 which overlies the beaches, suggests its origin. It is com- 

 posed of alternate layers of debris of the adjacent rocks, and 

 where the strata consist, as at Brighton, of a soft rock with 



