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the whole period of their residence in Britain, they do not 
appear to have extended to that portion which would have been 
more congenial to their habits, if the supposition of their 
northern origin was correct. This rather affords evidence in 
support of the conjecture that at early periods of the world a 
uniformity of climate prevailed over the whole of Europe, or 
at least, one more approaching that experienced in Sweden 
and Norway at the present day ! 
It is a remarkable fact, however, that certain caves in 
England contain the hyaenas in excess, while others contain 
the bear in greatest numbers. For instance, in Kirkdale 
Cave, in this county, Dr. Buckland calculated, from the 
number of teeth alone he examined, that not less than from 
200 to 300 hyaenas had lived and died therein ; while only a 
few teeth and bones of bears were recognized. In Wokey 
Hole, in Somerset, Mr. Boyd Dawkins found 121 jaws, and 
342 teeth of hyaenas, and only 27 teeth and two jaws of 
bears. In Kent's Hole, near Torquay, on the contrary, bones 
of the bears occur in greatest number ; as also, at Oreston 
Cavern, near Plymouth. In Paviland Cave, in Glamorganshire, 
and in the Victoria Cave, near Settle, in this county, the bones 
of both the hyaena and bear were exhumed, but very sparingly. 
Now, as in all these instances both genera occurred, it is a 
circumstance which suggests two interesting questions for 
consideration, viz., as the bones are all found intermixed, and 
on the same level, were the habits of the extinct Carnivora 
different from those species now existing ? as we have here an 
indication of their having been contemporary occupants of the 
same abode. We know that at the present day bears and 
hyaenas are neither of them social animals, even amongst their 
own kindred, or even live together in one common cave ! If, 
then, the habits of the former animals were not different from 
the present, by what means have the bones become associated? 
Can the minority in each instance have been the food of the 
