CONTAINING LARGE BONES. 
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west of this another similar hole occurred, in which was found a large 
head, which we shall have occasion presently to notice.” 
The bones from this cavern, preserved in Mr. Catcott’s cabinet in 
the Bristol library, are the teeth and fragments of some bones of the 
elephant; and similar remains of horses, oxen, and two species of stag, 
besides the skeleton, nearly complete, of a fox, and the metacarpal 
bone of a very large species of bear, nearly five inches in length. 
There are also molar teeth of the hog, and a large tusk of the upper 
jaw; (see Plate XI. fig. SO, 31, 32, 83.) This tusk probably be¬ 
longed to the head mentioned in the MS. as having been found in the 
pit above described, and of which the following particulars are spe¬ 
cified :—“ The head was stated by the workmen to have been about 
three or four feet long, fourteen inches broad at the top, or head part, 
and three inches at the snout. It had all the teeth perfect, and four 
tusks, the larger tusks about four inches long out of the head, and the 
lesser about three inches The tusk now preserved is about three 
inches long, its enamel is fine, it is longitudinally striated, and on one 
side of the apex truncated and worn fiat by use. 
Some farther details of the bones found in the cave at Hutton are 
given as a note in Mr. Catcott’s Treatise on the Deluge (page 361, 
first edition), in which he specifies six molar teeth of the elephant, 
one of them lying in the jaw, part of a tusk, part of a head, four thigh 
bones, three ribs, with a multitude of lesser bones, belonging probably 
to the same animal. “ Besides these,” he adds, “ we picked up part 
* * The head here described is evidently that of a hog; the account of its length 
being exaggerated by the workmen, from whose report alone Mr. Catcott gives the mea¬ 
sures of it. The head itself was lost or destroyed before he had seen it. 
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