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incisive teeth. The second was not nearly so plentiful as the first, 
whilst the third has only been met with on a few occasions in deep 
river deposits, thus indicating its existence before the glacial epoch. 
Altogether, up to the present time remains of rhinoceroses have 
been discovered in no less than eighty different localities in 
England, whilst not a trace of the genus has been hitherto met 
with either in Scotland or in Ireland. 
THE WILp Hoe was an ancient tenant of British soil, and main- 
tained its footing as long as there were forests to give it shelter 
and its enemy—man—allowed it to exist. It still haunts the least 
civilized parts of Europe and Asia, and, by its accommodating 
disposition, can subsist where other herbivorous quadrupeds would 
perish. 
It seems to have been plentiful in Great Britain, and the Boar, 
as a rule, was larger, and had the canines and molars more highly 
developed, than is usual with individuals of the species nowadays. 
Remains have been found associated with those of almost all the 
large extinct mammals, both in caverns and in river deposits. Its 
skull, battered in by either stone or metal axe, like those of the 
Long-fronted Ox, is often met with in the bogs and lake bottoms 
in Ireland, where large specimens have been found. It ceased to 
be a wild animal in that country after the beginning of the seven- 
teenth century, but was very common in the twelfth century, 
according to Giraldus, who remarks :—“ In no part of the world 
have I seen such abundance of boars and forest hogs; they are, 
however, small and misshapen and wary.” * 
A Horse about the size of a Galloway seems to have been very 
common on British soil after the glacial period; indeed, single 
teeth, found in conjunction with remains of the Mammoth, Hippo- 
potamus, and Rhinoceros, indicate an animal between fourteen 
and fifteen hands high, but the sizes of the teeth are no certain 
indication of the height of their owners. No doubt there were 
both large and small races, but, taking the bones into considera- 
tion, it may be safely surmised that the majority were about the 
dimensions above stated. The skulls indicate what horse dealers 
would designate a “fiddle head,” but the limb bones imply 
that the owners combined strength with agility. The Horse 
* Topographia Hiberniz. 
