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easy to fracture and masticate ; while, on the other hand, if 
it is conjectured to have been a shed horn its hardness under 
such circumstances would render it a very difficult operation 
for either wolf or dog to accomplish. 
Connected with the above occurrence of this animal, there 
is another point of some interest, which is, that in Ireland, 
the great centre for this species of deer, their osseous remains 
are invariably found either in peat bogs or in crannoges, 
where in the one case they have probably been submerged, 
and in the other are the refuse of the lake dwellers ; while in 
other localities, both in England and on the Continent, their 
bones have in almost every instance been found in caves, as 
at Kirkdale, Kent's Hole, Brixham, &c. How then are we to 
account for the entire absence of any remains of the mega- 
ceros in the limestone caverns of Ireland, into which we 
might equally suppose some of the individuals would have 
retired, or been washed by any sudden and local catastrophe, 
or been carried piecemeal by the large carnivorous animals 
which are known to have inhabited Ireland at the same 
period ? 
The two chambers of this cave extend conjointly 390 feet 
in length, and as the entrance to another fresh cave has been 
recently discovered, additional interesting and important 
results may be expected, it being Mr. Farrer's intention to 
make an examination of the new cave. (See Ground Plan 
and Section prepared for and contributed by Mr. Farrer.) 
The whole of the bones, &c, disinterred during these 
excavations have been presented to the Museum of the Leeds 
Philosophical and Literary Society by Mr. Farrer. — [h. d.] 
