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of man , and several recent European quadrupeds, and even the 
domestic cock, occur along with the remains of the extinct rhi- 
noceros, hyaena, tiger, &c. “ In Winter’s gypsum quarry, hu- 
man bones were discovered, at the depth of 26 feet from the sur- 
face, lying 8 feet below the bones of the rhinoceros, there also 
deposited 
In the preceding statements, we witness British animals, in 
reference to the changes to which they are subject, capable of 
being arranged into three classes, — the first including those spe- 
cies, the individuals of which are daily becoming scarcer, in con- 
sequence of the agency of man, — the second, those which man 
has succeeded in extirpating, but which still find an asylum in 
the more thinly peopled or less cultivated districts of Europe, — - 
while the third embraces those, which, though once natives of 
Britain and Europe, have ceased to exist in a living state on the 
earth. As connected with Britain, we may enumerate in the 
last class the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, hyaena, cave- 
bear, tyger, and elk. To what cause, then, are we to assign 
the extinction of these animals : To the extirpating effects of 
civilization, or to physical revolutions, over which man had no 
controul ? 
In order to solve this important problem, it is necessary to 
keep steadily in view the following conditions, which have been 
determined : 
1. The remains of these extinct animals occur in company 
with those which have been destroyed or extirpated by human 
agency, and with such as still survive, and seem suited to the 
climate. Thus, the bones of the extinct elephant, rhinoceros, 
and cave-bear, occur along with those of the common bear, the 
wolf, the fox, and the horse. 
2. The remains of these extinct animals are not found in any 
situation, such as caves, fissures, gravel and clay-beds, peat or 
* The human bones found at Kbstritz, according to later accounts, are said to 
occur, not in the regular alluvial deposite containing remains of elephants, &c., 
but in an irregular and accidental deposite of a comparatively modern date. This 
being the case, we do not yet possess any authentic instance of human remains oc- 
curring in those beds that contain bones of elephants, rhinoceroses, &c Edit. 
