68 J. H. Cooke—Ursus ferox in Malta. 
vented me from getting it out entire. The articular processes broke. 
off, bunt a few fragments were recovered and pieced together. 
Four other canines were afterwards discovered, each of which 
was in a fairly perfect state of preservation.1 Associated with these 
remains were found several vertebree and fragments of limb-bones 
of hippopotamus, and vertebrae and portions of horns of stags; but 
none of them presented any evidences of having been gnawed. 
The excavation which, when finished, measured 12 feet, by 10 
feet, by 6 feet, exhibited in section the following sequence of deposits: 
) 
Section oF Har Datam Cave, at Trencu No. VI., showrne Succession 
oF Deposits. 
A. A layer of rounded boulders that lay scattered over the floor to a depth of 
two feet. 
B. Cave-floor consisting of a friable marly loam, about nine inches thick, containing 
numerous land-shells, roots of plants, limpet shells, a shell of a Cerithiun, 
and the vertebree of a small fish. These latter had evidently been introduced. 
C. A stratified layer of rounded boulders, intermixed with a grey marly loam con- 
taining an abundance of land-shells. 
D. A friable marly loam with a few pebbles. Entire antlers, jaws, and limb-bones 
of Cervus barbarus, together with fragments of very old pottery, occurred in 
abundance. 
E. A layer of indurated, light-crey loam containing a few antlers, teeth, and bones 
of C. barbarus, and a jaw and five canines of Ursus jferox, and remains 
of H. pentlandi. 
F. A layer ot about 1 foot 6 inches in thickness, similar in composition to H, but 
more indurated. Lying at the base of this layer, and on the original rock- 
floor of the cave, were numerous molars, portions of tusks, and limb-bones 
of -Hippopotamus. 
All of the layers in this section presented distinct evidences of 
stratification; but in the lower ones the thickness of the deposits 
and their comparative homogeneity contrast strongly with the 
numerous thin layers of which the upper beds are composed, and 
with the assortment of boulders, pebbles, and organic remains of 
which they are made up. 
From the evidences thus afforded its seems that the deposits owe 
1 One of these Mr. A. S. Woodward, F.G.S., has determined as belonging to the 
left side of the mandible of a species of Canis, ‘equalling a wolf in size. 
iki sGineca en. 
