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em Asia ; but the remains of four species have been found 

 in America, Europe, and northern Asia, in deposits of 

 the Glacial period. In company with that of the mam- 

 moth, already spoken of, a carcass of the woolly rhinoceros 

 was found in 1771 in the 

 frozen soil of northern Si- 

 beria. The bones of other 

 species have been found as 

 far north as Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land. In the valley of the 

 Somme there was found " the 

 whole hind limb of a rhinoce- 

 ros, the bones of which were still in their true relative po- 

 sition. They must have been joined together by ligaments 

 and even surrounded by muscles at the time of their inter- 

 ment." An entire skeleton was found near by. The gravel 

 terrace in which these occurred is about forty feet above 

 the floor of the valley, and must have been formed subse- 



Fig. 89.— Skeleton of Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus. 



Fig. .90 — Skull of cave-bear (Ltsus spelaeus), 



quent to some of the strata which contained the remains 

 of human art. In America the bones are found in the 

 gold-bearing gravels of California, in connection with hu- 

 man remains. 



The Bear was represented in Europe in palaeolithic 

 times by three species, of which only one' exists there at 



