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from their frequent companionsliip witli the hippopotamus, 
and as Prof. Dawkins points out from their range, to have also 
lived in warm countries. The rest are all either adaptable to 
a wide range of climate, or of temperate proclivities. Upon 
the whole, then, we have an assemblage of species which 
require, or could live in, a tolerably warm climate. Arctic 
species are entirely absent. This state of things must have 
lasted a long time, but higher in the Section the bones become 
more scarce, the more tropical animals are wanting. The 
bear, the fox, and the ox, are scattered about at rare intervals, 
eventually these vanish, and about twenty feet above the 
busy-looking hyaena floor we come upon the base of the 
laminated clay, interbedded with an occasional layer of stalag- 
mite, but without a trace of any living thing. We work our 
way up through it, and find near the top of it some well- 
scratched boulders, and we look out at the cave mouth, and 
seeing the rubbish left by a vanished glacier, we naturally 
ask — Do not these represent the coming events which cast 
their cold shadows before them, and first drove from the dis- 
trict the tropical animals, and then those of greater powers of 
endurance. The laminated clay here fills the cave up to the 
roof, but we follow it along into Chamber D, and find trodden 
into its puddled surface several antlers of reindeer. A bed of 
mud and fallen stones comes on above it (the Upper Cave- 
Earth), and this contains the following : — 
Man (traces of) as evi- ( Horse. 
denced by hacked bones. Pig. 
Fox. Reindeer. 
Grisly Bear. Bed Deer. 
Brown Bear. Goat or Sheep. 
Badger. 
This bed probably represents a considerable length of 
time, and contains remains from the reindeer age and cold 
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