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of the Elk in a small fissure near Ash Hole, and reposing 
in clay, and some few years previously, a single Elephant's 
femur was removed from a similar and adjacent locality,— 
facts which shew the influence of a flood in carrying this 
class of fossils into their present situations. It would now 
seem that the number of species of Deer belonging to the 
ossiferous caves is even greater than was first thought, 
there is first the Elk, which I would here observe by the 
way, seems to me possessed of specific characters which 
separate it from the creature of the same name recognized 
amongst alluvial deposits, as also equally from the existing 
Elk of the northern countries (see Annals of Phil. vol. xix. 
p. 305) ; 2dly, one of the size of C. dama ; 3dly, one whose 
skull is about the same size, hut differently shaped from that 
of the Fallow Deer, and perhaps having the horns above 
described as somewhat like those of the Roe ; 4thly, a very 
small species ; and perhaps to these might he added a 5th, 
whose lower jaw is a foot long. 
I cannot avoid expressing my conviction in conclusion 
of these desultory remarks, that much is capable of being 
yet added to our knowledge of fossil bones, and that con¬ 
sequently the opinions of any author on this important 
subject should be read with great reserve of private judgment, 
and not with the impression that nought remained to be 
added to them, or to be subtracted. The folly of adopting 
any definite theory of the sizes of these extinct beings 
relatively to those now existing, (and which furnish names 
to the former merely from the circumstance of similarity 
in appearance of their bones,) as well as the folly of 
prospectively precluding the discovery of new species in 
this department, will be seen by reference to the 2nd Vol. 
of Menageries, p. 377, et seq. 
Quae minimo quidem naturalia in spatio inveniuntur 
terrarum, ea omnia ad pernoscenda, hujusmodi rerum 
indagatorum perscrutantium, summi, et non-intermissi 
conatus vere postulantur. 
