34 THE BONE-CAVE Oil FISSURE OF DUEDHAM DOWN. 



1'ho horbivora comprise very numerous examples of bos 

 (wild bull), about five deer, six or seven elephants, varying 

 from extremely young to one very aged, two examples of 

 rhinoceros, and several of hippopotamus. The bones are all 

 attached, and fractured into small bits, and the proportion 

 of toetli and horns to the other parts of the body greatly 

 preponderates. 



" In reference to the possible modes of accumulation, the 

 first method by floods is excluded, because, as in all diluvial 

 accumulations, there would have been a mixture of i^olled 

 stones of various kinds. If the animals had fallen into 

 the fissures, whole skeletons, or at least all the bones of a 

 single individual, would have been entoinbod. But so far 

 from this being the case, the receptacle would not contain a 

 number approaching to that of the animals whoso remains 

 are there found. But, on the other hand, the theory that 

 the cave was the den of hyronas is consistent with all the 

 observed facts. The hnljits of these animals to tear up 

 j)utrid carcasses, to cany oif poj'tions to their dons in rocks, 

 to crash with violent force the bones of their prey — for 

 which their jaws are consti'ucted to act with wonderful 

 effect — tho gnawed and splintered condition of the bones 

 ai'o circumstances which render the last-named theory 

 highly probable, and worthy to be assumed as the ti'uo 

 one. By comparison of the teeth of the fossil hyrona and 

 bear with those of recent animals, their enoi'mous size was 

 strikingly shown; those of tho hya)na pi-ovcd it to have 

 been larger than the largest known syiocios of tiger. 



"Mr. Stutchbury then drew attention to the following 

 facts : An elephant's tooth had been broken into two parts, 

 in a direction not corresponding with that of the lamina! of 

 the tooth, but diagonally across tho laminro, and the parts 

 had moved relatively iu the plane of the section ; another 



