HABITS OF THE CAVE ANIMALS. 
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The whole of these remains except the tiger and 
hippopotamus, were found in the cav r ern at Yealm 
Bridge, but only a part in the other caves of the 
district. Their perfect similarity to those of other 
caves in different parts of England, and the 
Continent, establishes their identification with the 
series,—a series exhibiting a probability that at 
the period when these animals inhabited Europe, 
circumstances were in great measure different to 
those now present, since they seem to have been 
unsuited to the existence of a vast variety of beings 
now constituting the natural products of the 
continent of Europe and its Islands. Regarding 
the foregoing catalogue only so far as the mammals 
are concerned, the series may appear tolerably 
perfect, because the rapacious creatures hold a 
strict relationship to the herbivorous, but then 
insectivorous quadrupeds are deficient, such as the 
mole, shrews, and hedgehog; and though there are 
a few granivorous animals, and such as subsist on 
wild fruits and the bark of trees, we have no positive 
data for affirming that remains of trees and plants 
have as yet been found, which can undeniably be 
stated as belonging to the same sera, and as having 
furnished the provender which the greater part of 
the above named creatures naturally required, and 
doubtlessly had provided them.—It may indeed 
hereafter be ascertained, that the Bovey coal and 
clay deposit represents as to its own extent, the 
remains of that Vast abundance of forest and other 
productions belonging *to the period we are now 
speaking of; but at all events we are certain, that 
a condition of the country different from that now 
seen, was essential to the maintenance of the crea¬ 
tures which then possessed it. The elephants would 
need forest tracts, inasmuch as they seek shelter, 
and feed principally on the branches of trees; the 
rhinoceroses would require marshy lands of some 
