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Ch. XLV.] 



ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS AND CAVES. 



521 



In several caverns on the banks of the Meuse, near Liege, 

 Dr. Schmerling fonnd human bones in the same mud and 

 breccia with those of the elephant, rhinoceros, bear, and 

 other quadrupeds of extinct species. He has observed none 

 of the dung of any of these animals j and from this circum- 

 stance, and the appearance of the mud and pebbles, he 

 concludes that these caverns were never inhabited bj wild 

 beasts, but washed in by a current of water. As the human 

 skulls and bones were in frao-ments, and no entire skeleton 

 had been found, he does not believe that these caves were 

 places of sepulture, but that the human remains were washed 

 in at the same time as the bones of extinct quadrupeds, and 

 that these lost species of mammalia coexisted on the earth 

 with man.^ 



hreccias formed in 02^ en fissures and caves.— 

 modes in which the bones of animals become 



•Among the 



i 



agency of land floods and en- 



may 



animals 



may 



the more 



perish. This 



are chased by 



beasts of prey, or when surprised while carelessly browsing on 

 the shrubs which so often overgrow and conceal the edges of 



t 



made 



the bones of two deer were found at the bottom of an ancient 

 well which had been filled up with alluvial loam. Their 

 horns were broken to pieces, but the jawbones and other 

 parts of the skeleton 



remain 



id tolerably perfect. ^ Their 

 13resence,' says Captain Cautley, ' is easily accounted for, as 



number 



of these and other animals are constantly 

 lost in galloping over the jungles and among the high grass 

 by falling into deserted wells. 'J 



Above the village of Selside, near Ingleborough in York- 

 shire, a 



chasm 



* The above was written in 1834, 

 before the coexistence of man with the 

 extinct animals had become a generally 

 received doctrine. In my 'Antiquity of 

 Man/ chap, iv., I have done more justice 

 to Dr. Schmerling, and the reader will 



find there a full account of the Belgian 

 caves which Ire-examined in 18G0. 



25. 



t Buckland, Eeliquiee Diluvianse, p. 



J See above, pp. 512, 513. 



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