ITS CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS. 
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Tigers, Elephants, Rhinoceroses, etc., existed in 
England in as great numbers as thoy now do in 
the wildest parts of tropical Asia or Africa. The 
narrow entrance to the cave still retains the marks 
of grease and hair, such as one may see on the 
bars of a cage in a menagerie against which the 
imprisoned animals have been in the habit of 
rubbing themselves constantly, and there were 
marks of the same kind on the floor and walls. 
It was evident that the Hyenas were the lords of 
this ancient cavern, and the other animals their 
unwilling guests ; for the remains of the latter 
were those which had beon most gnawed, broken, 
and mangled ; and the head of an enormous Hy- 
ena, with gigantic fangs found complete, bore 
ample evidence to their great size and power. 
Some of the animals, such as the Elephants, Rhi- 
noceroses, etc., could not have been brought into 
the cave without being first killed and torn to 
pieces, for it is not large enough to admit them. 
But their gnawed and broken bones attest, never- 
theless, that they were devoured like the rest ; 
and probably the Hyenas then had the same pro- 
pensity which characterizes those of our own 
rie. Any one who may wish to read the whole history of Dr. 
Buckland’s investigations of this matter, showing the patience 
and sagacity with which he collected and arranged the evidence, 
will find a full account of Kirkdale Cave and other caverns con 
taining fossil bones in his “ Reliquiae Diluvianae.” 
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