The Rev. Mr. Buckland’s account of Fossil Teeth and 
which this partial wearing away and polish can have been 
produced :* for the process of rolling by water would have 
made pebbles of them, or at least would have broken off the 
edges of the teeth and delicate points of the fractured extre- 
mities of the bone, which still remain untouched and sharp. 
I have already stated, that the greatest number of teeth 
(those of the hyasna excepted) belong to the ruminating ani- 
mals ; from which it is to be inferred that they formed the 
ordinary prey of the hyaenas. I have also to add, that very 
few of the teeth of these animals bear marks of age ; they 
seem to have perished by a violent death in the vigour of 
life. With respect to the horns of deer that appear to have 
fallen off by necrosis, it is probable that the hyaenas found 
them thus shed, and dragged them home for the purpose of 
gnawing them in their den; and to animals so fond of bones, 
the spongy interior of horns of this kind would not be unac- 
ceptable. I found a fragment of stags’ horn in so small a 
recess of the cave, that it never could have been introduced, 
unless singly, and after separation from the head ; and near 
it was the molar tooth of an elephant. I have seen no re- 
mains of horns of oxen, and perhaps there are none, for the 
bony portion of their interior being of a porous spongy nature, 
would probably have been eaten b} r the hyamas, whilst the 
outer case, being of a similar composition to hair and hoofs, 
* I have been informed by an officer in India, that passing by a tiger’s den in the 
absence of the tiger, he examined the interior, and found in the middle of it a large 
portion of stone on which the tiger reposed, to be worn smooth and polished by the 
friction of his body. The same thing may be seen on marble steps and altars, and 
even metallic statues in places of worship that are favourite objects of pilgrimage : 
they are often deeply worn and polished by the knees, and even lips of pilgrims, to a 
degree that, without experience of the fact, we could scarcely have anticipated. 
