222 The Rev. Mr. Buckland’s account of Fossil Teeth and 
occasionally inhabited them ; that they lived in the neigh- 
bourhood of these caves, in the period immediately preceding 
the formation of the diluvium, is probable, from the occur- 
rence in it of the bones of the elephant and rhinoceros near 
the caves of Scharzfels and Alterstein, mentioned by Blu- 
menbach. ( Archaeologia Telluris, p. 15.) 
The fact mentioned by M. Cuvier, of the same hyaena being 
common to the caves and gravel of France and Germany, 
and that ascertained by myself, of the Ursus spelaeus oc- 
curring in the gravel of Upper Austria, proves both these 
extinct species to have been the antediluvian contemporaries 
of the extinct elephant and rhinoceros ; there is therefore no 
anachronism in finding the remains of the two latter in a den 
that was occasionally inhabited by such hyaenas and bears. 
With respect to the analogies of the diluvian sediment and 
the stalactite in Germany and Yorkshire, in the case of the 
open caves that have been disturbed and ransacked for centu- 
ries, it is hopeless to expect evidence of what was the precise 
state of these deposits in each individual cavern at the time it 
was first entered. Still there is information respecting some 
that have been recently discovered, which is to our purpose. It 
is stated, that a sediment of this kind was found on the sides 
and floor of the cave at Glucksbrun, near Meinungen, when 
it was newly opened in cutting a road in 1799, and that in all 
the other caverns also there is mud, but no rounded pebbles. 
M. Deluc, in describing the matrix in which the bones are 
lodged in the cave at Scharzfels, says, “ le fait est done sim- 
plement, que le sol de ces cavernes est d’une terre calcaire/’ 
“ qu'en creusant cette couche molle, on en tire quantite de 
fragmens d’os ; et qu’il s’y trouve aussi des concretions pier- 
