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rhine Ehinoceros and the Hippopotamus major. The sheet oi 
gravel also on which London stands has yielded several isolated 
teeth to various collectors. From the brick-pit at Ilford, on 
the north side of the Thames, one metacarpal has been obtained 
by Dr. Cotton, and two rami respectively by Mr. Antonio Brady 
and ]\lr. E. D. Darbishire, along with the remains of Elephas 
antiquus, Eed-deer, and Beaver. In the corresponding sheet of 
brick-earth on the opposite side of the river, extending from 
Erith to Crayford, a lower jaw and an os innominatum were 
found by Mr. Swayne; a canine, two lower jaws, a humerus, 
metacarpal and metatarsal, and a phalange by Dr. Spurred ; a 
gigantic canine by Professor Morris. In the same county the 
brick-earth of Otterham has furnished two teeth, discovered by 
Mr. Hughes, and a similar deposit near Hartlip, in the same 
neighbourhood, a femur discovered by Mr. Bland. A very careful 
search throughout South Kent and the whole of Sussex has not 
revealed a trace of the former existence of the Lion in the dense 
Wealden forest, that, from the nature of the ground, must have 
over-shadowed those districts during the Post-glacial epoch. In 
going westward, we meet with the animal again in the low-level 
deposits at Fisherton, in a lower jaw found by Dr. Blackmore, 
and now in the Salisbury Museum. The low-level gravels also 
of Loxbrook, close to Bath, have yielded a remarkably fine 
humerus to the energy of the Eev. H. H. Winwood. A canine 
and humerus were also discovered by Mr. Stutchbury in the 
cave on Durdham Down, near Bristol. 
The district, however, that has furnished the most enormous 
quantity of the bones of the Cave Lion, and that is entitled, 
therefore, to rank as its metropolis in Britain, is the western 
half of the iMendip range of hills. Throughout the area extend- 
ing from the ancient city of Wells westward to the watering- 
place of Weston-super-^Mare, the mountain limestone is traversed 
by numerous caves, of which Wookey, Bleadon, Sandford Hill, 
Hutton, and Banwell, are the most important. From the first 
four of these, between six and seven hundred specimens of the 
bones and teeth of the animal have been preserved in the 
Taunton ^Museum, besides at least one hundred more that have 
found their way into other collections. The accumulation of 
so enormous a quantity of remains in so small an area may be 
accounted for by the peculiar position of the Mendip hills, that 
command fertile valleys on the north, and look out towards the 
south and west over a plain which in Post-glo.cial times occupied 
a large portion of the Bristol Channel. Around them were the 
feeding-grounds of incalculable numbers of the Eeindeer, Bison, 
Horse, and tichorliine Rhinoceros, and therefore we might expect 
to find the carnivora present in great force. There is evidence, 
indeed, tliat a larger number of Jfions, Bears, and Hysenas dwelt 
