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as if for suspension as an amulet or bead. Remains were also 
found of nine different species of Carnivora, such as the Cave 
Bear, Hyaena, Cat, "Wolf, Fox ; and of twelve Herbivora, 
such as the Elephant, Rhinoceros, great extinct Stag, Bison, 
Horse, Reindeer, &c. : the most common were the Bison, 
Reindeer, and Fox. Now, the simple fact of the bear's tusk 
being perforated to string as a personal ornament by these 
primitive inhabitants of the Pyrenees, appears to me sufficient 
of itself to prove that they were obtained from animals still 
living in the neighbourhood. Perforated teeth of the wolf 
were found in the Craven caves; and in the excavations 
connected with the examination of the Roman wall, near 
Newcastle, perforated teeth of the bear were discovered, with 
other antiquities ; and it is still a practice with the uncivilized 
tribes of Africa, to form necklaces of the canine teeth of the 
leopard and other feline animals, which is a singular 
coincidence of the similarity of tastes and usages in people of 
probably similar habits, at two such distant periods of time ; 
— and I confess it appears to me as fair to infer that these 
early people killed and eat the bear and other animals, and 
used their teeth and other reliquae for domestic purposes or 
personal ornaments, as to suppose that they availed them- 
selves of such bones and teeth of still earlier occupants of the 
caves as were spread over its floor, when they first took pos- 
session of such simple habitations. If the great Bos primi- 
genus fell by the flint implement of the primitive inhabitants 
of this island, of which we have now incontrovertible evi- 
dence, why not its cotemporary mammals as the bear, &c. 
In support of which view, the facts disclosed by the cave 
at Aurignac are of a nature which ought to remove every 
shadow of a doubt. In some caverns or fissures where the 
bones of extinct mammals and implements of human con- 
struction have been discovered in association, there has been 
no proof that man might not have been an occupant long- 
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