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mitting this identity, in what a new labyrinth are the geologists 
placed ! 
It has been hitherto said that the fossil elephant is of the Asiatic 
species ; and here we find it twice associated with an animal of the 
South of Africa. This same animal is found too associated with bears, 
which at present exist only in the north. At what time, then, he 
asks, was it that the elephants and the hyenas of the Cape, of the size 
of our bears, lived together in our climate, and were shaded by forests 
of palms, and in which they took shelter in caverns along with bears 
as large as our horses ? 
The remains of a very large animal of the genus Felis also exist in 
great numbers in these caverns. Those of Hungary have been de- 
scribed and figured by Vollgnad, Ephem. Nat. Cur. An. 4, Dec. 1. 
and Leibnitz gives the portion of a skull, Prolog. PI. xi. Fig. 1. This 
skull, which has been examined, and compared with the utmost degree 
of precision by M. Soemmerring with the skulls of the bear of the 
cavern and of the lion, is found by that celebrated anatomist to agree 
with that of the lion of a moderate size, and to differ from that of the 
bear of the caverns in thirty-six different points. But it is remarked 
by M. Cuvier, that the greater part of these points of difference are 
referable to every animal of the genus Felis, as well as to the lion. 
Esper has given the figures of several teeth, which resemble those of 
some feline animal, and which he obtained from the caverns of 
Gaylenreuth. M. Cuvier has also obtained, from Gaylenreuth, the 
second upper grinder ; and, by favour of Mr. A. Camper, the half of 
a lower jaw, wanting only the condyle and the antepenultimate 
grinder of some animal of the same genus. 
To determine to what species this jaw belongs, M. Cuvier justly ob- 
serves, is by no means easy. “ I venture to say,” he adds, “that it 
would be impossible, wfithout the numerous means of comparison which 
I have had the happiness of bringing together.” By these opportunities 
he has been enabled to determine that this piece belonged to neither 
