PLATE 5. 
of which they discovered the incrusted head now deline- 
ated, with other bones*, in the same state, all apparently 
belonging to animals of the cat-kind d". 
Fig. 1. Is a side view of the head — The incrustation of a 
light yellow or buft-colour : its texture firm and strong. 
The teeth and one side of the upper jaw are bare. The 
grinders perfect ; the fore-teeth lost ; the canine teeth 
remarkably large and strong, the enamel still on them. 
2. Front view of the same specimen. 
It will, perhaps, be impossible satisfactorily to account 
for the bones being deposited in the situation above des- 
cribed. Some degree of probability, however, attaches 
itself to the supposition, that all caves in which similar accu- 
mulations of bones have been discovered, were, at some 
former period, the habitation, or occasional places of 
retreat, of the animals whose remains they now entomb. 
* Caverns containing incrusted bones have been discovered in alrtiost 
every part of Europe. In the 5th vol. of the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, Mr. GIbbes has given an account of one lately observed in Somer- 
setshire, containing a considerable accumulation of human bones ! 
t The scull has been thought too large for that of the cat ; but the form 
and number of teeth incontestably prove it to belong to the feline tribe. And 
as the wild-cat, which, according to Mr. Pennant and other Zoologists, is 
considerably larger than the domestic kind, was once, it is well known, 
common in Derbyshire, there is little doubt but the present specimen owes 
its form to the ani.mal in question. 
