Scientific Intelligence. — Geology. 
ed off at a period antecedent to that when they, as well as the 
splinters and teeth that accompany them, were imbedded in the 
mud and gravel that now surround them. Of more than a 
thousand bones, or rather fragments of bones, that have been 
collected recently in Kent’s Hole, not fifty have been found en- 
tire. The condyles, and softer portions, are almost uniformly 
removed, and marks of gnawing and fracture, such as appear in 
Nos. 1, 2, and 3, are generally visible at the extremities of the 
remaining central and harder portions. The condition of the 
teeth, — the number and variety of animals, — and the circum- 
stances that accompany their mangled remains, are precisely the 
same as at Kirkdale ; the only difference is, that at Torquay, 
the cave is more than twenty times as extensive as that in York- 
shire ; and the remains of all kinds, nearly in the same propor- 
tion more numerous. The superficial crust of stalagmite, and 
the bed of mud which forms the matrix of the broken bones 
and teeth beneath it, are also in the same proportion thicker. 
There are also album grcecum , as at Kirkdale, and stumps of 
gnawed horns of deer ; and the bony bases of horns of rhinoce- 
roses, but no horns of this animal , although more than a hundred 
of its teeth have been already found ; also the teeth of many in- 
fant elephants, — numberless bones of horses, elks, deer, and oxen, 
— and gnawed bones and jaws of hyenas, with their single teeth 
and tusks ; also the teeth and tusks of bears, tigers, wolves and 
foxes, — and of an unknown carnivorous animal, at least as large 
as a tiger ; the genus of which has not yet been determined. All 
these will be described in Professor Buckland’s second volume 
of Reliquiae Diluvianae. The history of the Torquay cave be- 
ing, according to Professor Buckland, identical with that of 
Kirkdale, is totally different from that of the cavernous fissures 
at Plymouth and Banwell ; both the latter containing bones that 
are usually entire, and never gnawed ; and which appear to 
have been supplied by animals that fell into the open fissures, 
before they were filled with the mud and gravel that now en- 
velope their bones * 
* These bones were exhibited at a late meeting of the Wernerian Society, when 
several of the members agreed in considering the furrows on the bones, as very pro- 
bably produced by the teeth of some quadruped. — Edit. 
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