200 The Rev . Mr. Buckland’s account of Fossil Teeth and 
spontaneously, animals of such dissimilar habits as hyaenas, 
tigers, bears, wolves, foxes, horses, oxen, deer, rabbits, water- 
rats, mice, weasels, and birds. 
2d. It may be suggested, that they were drifted in by the 
waters of a flood : if so, either the carcases floated in entire ; 
or the bones alone were drifted in after separation from the 
flesh : in the first of these cases, the larger carcases, as we 
have already stated, could not have entered at all ; and of 
the smaller ones, the cave could not have contained a sufficient 
number to supply one-twentieth part of the teeth and bones ; 
moreover, the bones would not have been broken to pieces, 
nor in different stages of decay. And had they been washed 
in by a succession of floods, we should have had a succession 
of beds of sediment and stalactite, and the cave would have 
been filled up by the second or third repetition of such an 
operation as that whiclvintroduced the single stratum of mud, 
which alone occurs in it. On the other hypothesis, that they 
were drifted in after separation from the flesh, they would 
have been mixed with gravel, and at least slightly rolled on 
their passage ; and it would still remain to be shown by what 
means they were split and broken to pieces, and the dispro- 
portion created which exists between the numbers of the teeth 
and bones. They could not have fallen in through the fis- 
sures, for these are closed upwards in the substance of the 
lock, and do not reach to the surface. 
The 3rd, and only remaining hypothesis that occurs to me 
is, that they were dragged in for food by the hyaenas, who 
caught their prey in the immediate vicinity of their den ; and 
as they could not have dragged it home from any very great 
distance^, it follows, that the animals they fed on all lived 
