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that country have been as minutely explored as those of Eng- 
land, we may also find the Hyaena, Tiger, Rhinoceros, and 
other extinct mammalia of the Pleistocene period, and thus 
obtain evidence that the Fauna of the two countries has once 
been identical ; by which fact the inferred probability of the 
continuity of land, by the union of the opposite coasts at a 
remote period, will be considerably strengthened, if not con- 
firmed. 
Kow as we know the extinct bears were the contemporaries 
of the Megaceros, Rhinoceros, Mammoth, Hyaena, Aurochs, and 
other large mammals of that early period, it may be asked — 
have we yet any evidence of their having been coeval with 
man himself ?— which is the most interesting, if not important, 
question of the present day. Until very recently, it was 
supposed that the great Cave Bear had disappeared at the 
commencement of the Post Pliocene period ; but the labours 
of Dr. Falconer, Lartet, Pictet, Boyd Dawkins, and others, 
have brought forward such startling facts as to the undoubted 
association of human remains with those of extinct mammalia, 
that it is almost impossible to receive their statements, and 
yet refuse to reason with fairness on the evidence they supph T , 
which appears the most conclusive as to the above point. 
Take that of Mons. Lartet alone. In the cave at Aurignac, 
in the South of France, he found flint implements, worked 
portions of Reindeer's horn, human bones in a high state of 
preservation, and bones of animals scratched and indented as 
though by implements, to remove the flesh and marrow, as 
is done by many modern tribes of savages. The human 
implements consisted of bone knives, flattened circular stones, 
supposed to have been used for sharpening flint knives, per- 
forated sling stones, many arrow heads and spear heads, 
flint knives, a bodkin made of Roebuck's horn, and a tusk 
from the great Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus), one end of which 
had been rudely carved, and the tusk perforated lengthwise, 
