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rather broken and splintered fragments of bones, of all the 
animals above enumerated ; they were found in greatest 
quantity near its mouth, simply because its area in this 
part was most capacious; those of the larger animals, 
elephant, rhinoceros, etc., were found co-extensively with 
all the rest even in the inmost and smallest recesses. 
Scarcely a single bone has escaped fracture, and on 
BUCKLAND ENTERING TIIE KIRKDALE CAVERN* FROM A CARICATURE 
BY THE REV. W. CONYBEARE. 
some of the bones, marks may be traced, which, on 
applying one to the other, appear exactly to fit the form 
of the canine teeth of the hyena that occur in the cave. 
The hyena's bones have been broken, and apparently 
gnawed equally with those of the other animals. Not one 
skull is to be found entire; fragments of jaw-bones are 
by no means common ; the ordinary fate of the jaw-bones, 
as of all the rest, appears to have been to be broken to 
