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England may be conceived, when the remains of not fewer 

 than from 200 to 300 have been discovered in a single cavern 

 as that at Kirby Moorside. Fossil hyenas have been shown 

 by Dr. Buckland to be found in this country, as on the 

 continent, in situations of two kinds, viz. caverns and drifts 

 or the so-called diluvial gravel. In the latter formation, 

 they were first discovered in England in the year 1822, at 

 Lawford, near Rugby, associated with the bones of the 

 mammoth, rhinoceros, equus, bos, &c. The remains of a 

 feline animal, surpassing in size the largest lion or tiger, have 

 been found in the bone caves of Mendip Hills, and those 

 of Oreston, at Kirby Moorside, and in Kent's Hole. Of 

 this remarkable species, to which the name of Felis spel(Ba 

 has been given, most of the characteristic bones have been 

 discovered in the caves at Gailenreuth, proving its true feline 

 structure. Order Cetaceee : most of the remains of this 

 order of mammalia have been in Great Britain found in 

 gravel beds adjacent to estuaries, or large rivers, in marine 

 drift, or diluvium, and in the subjacent clay beds; but 

 although these depositories are the most superficial, and 

 belong to the most recent periods in geology, the situation of 

 the cetaceous fossils generally indicates a gain of dry land 

 from the sea. Thus the skeleton of a baleenoptera, seventy 

 two feet in length, found embedded in clay, on the banks of 

 the Forth, w^as more than twenty feet above the reach of the 

 highest tide. Several bones of a whale discovered at Dunure 

 Rock, Stirlingshire, in brick earth, were nearly forty feet 

 above the present level of the sea. The vertebrae of a whale, 

 discovered by Mr. Richardson in the yellow marl, or brick 

 earth of Heme Bay, in Kent, were situated ten feet above 

 the occasional reach of the sea on that coast. A large ver- 

 tebrse of Balcena mysticetus was discovered fifteen feet below 

 the surface, in gravel, by the workmen employed in digging 

 the foundation for the new Temple Church, The tooth of 



