21 6 The Rev. Mr. Buckland's account of Fossil Teeth and 
stances of the caves we have been examining in England, 
appear consistent with those of analogous caverns in other 
parts of the world. The history of the diluvian gravel of the 
Continent, and of the animal remains contained in it, appears 
altogether identical with that of our own; and with res- 
pect to the bones that occur in caverns, the chief difference 
seems to be, that on the Continent some of the caves have 
their mouths open, and have been inhabited in the post-dilu- 
vial period by animals of now existing species. Thus at 
Gailenreuth the great extinct bear (Ursus spelagus) occurs, 
together with the Yorkshire species of extinct hy^na, in a 
cave, the mouth of which has no appearance of having ever 
been closed, and which at this moment would, probably, have 
been tenanted by wild beasts, had not the progress of human 
population extirpated them from that part of Germany. 
For a description of the cavern at Gailenreuth, (which I 
visited in 1816) of which, in Plate XXVI. I have given a 
sectional representation, I must refer to the work of Rosen- 
muller, published at Weimar in 1804, in folio, with engra- 
vings of nearly all the bones composing the skeleton of the 
extinct bear, the size of which approached nearly to that of a 
horse ; and for a description of the caves at Blankenburg, to 
an account by Esper and Leibnitz, published at Brunswick. 
M. Rosenmuller says, he has never seen the remains of 
the elephant and rhinoceros in the same cavern with those of 
bears ; and that he has found the bones of wolves, foxes, 
horses, mules, oxen, sheep, stags, roebucks, badgers, dogs, 
and men ;* and that the number of all these is in no propor- 
• M. Espee has found in one of the caverns containing bears’ bones, fragments of 
urns, which from their form were probably made at least 800 years ago. 
