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VIII. — On the Fossil Remains of Quadrupeds, <|c. 
discovered in tJie Cavern at Kirkdale, in York- 
shire, and in other Cavities or Seams in Lime- 
stone Bocks. 
By the Kev. George Young, A. M. 
Corresponding Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 
{Read Zm November 1822.) 
PAKT II. 
In a former paper, communicated to the Society in May 
last*, I gave an account of a remarkable collection of 
bones and teeth, belonging to the elephant, rhinoceros, 
hippopotamus, hytena, stag, and other animals, found in a 
cavern, in the oolite-limestone, at Kirkdale^ in Yorkshire ; 
and noticed, at the same time, a few similar collections of 
animal remains discovered in limestone. In that paper, I 
confined myself to a simple detail of facts and appearances, 
proposing to inquire, in a future paper, how such collec- 
tions of relics may have been formed. This design I have 
been much longer in fulfilling than was intended ; partly 
from the hope of availing myself of any additional light 
which might be thrown on the subject by new discoveries, 
of which there was some prospect ; and partly with a view 
* Memoirs of the Society, vol, Iv. p. 262. 
