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LIFE OF DEAN BUCK LAND. 
[CH. III. 
thing he could wish and as much as could be expected 
had they attended regularly this course of his lectures.” 
Buckland found in the Kirkdale cave not only remains 
of hyenas, but teeth and bones of twenty-three different 
animals—among them tiger, bear, wolf, elephant, rhino¬ 
ceros, hippopotamus, horse, ox, three species of deer, hare, 
rabbit, water-rat, mouse. Of birds’ remains, he also 
found raven, pigeon, lark, snipe, and a small species of 
duck resembling the anas sponsor or summer duck. This 
wonderful cave no longer exists, having been quarried 
away. Buckland says : “ The workmen on first discover¬ 
ing the bones at Kirkdale cave supposed them to have 
belonged to cattle that died of a murrain in this district 
a few years before, and they were for some time neglected 
and thrown on the roads with the common limestone.” 
It was to the kindness of the Bishop of Oxford (Legge) 
that the Professor was indebted for the first information 
as to the existence of the cave. He visited it in December 
1821, and described the entrance as "a hole in the perpen¬ 
dicular face of the quarry about three feet high and five 
feet broad, which it is only possible for a man to enter on 
his hands and knees, and which expands and contracts 
itself irregularly, from two to seven feet in breadth and 
two to fourteen feet in height, diminishing however as it 
proceeds into the interior of the hill.” 
From Dr. Buckland’s minute account of the contents of 
the cave the following abridged extract may be taken :— 
“ The bottom of the cave, on first removing the mud, was 
found to be strewed all over like a dog kennel, from one 
end to the other, with hundreds of teeth and bones, or 
