16 ACCOUNT OF FOSSIL TEETH AND BONES 
be strewed all over like a dog-kennel, from one end to the other, with 
hundreds of teeth and bones, or rather broken and splintered frag¬ 
ments 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, &c. were found co-extensively with all the rest, even in 
the inmost and smallest recesses. (See Plate II. fig. 3.*) Scarcely a 
single bone has escaped fracture, with the exception of the astragalus, 
and other hard and solid bones of the tarsus and carpus joints, and 
those of the feet. (See Plate X. fig. 1 to 5, and fig. 7 to 10, and 
Plate V. fig. 5 to 12.) On 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 hyaena that occur in the cave. The 
hyaena’s bones have been broken, and apparently gnawed equally 
with those of the other animals. Heaps of small splinters, and 
highly comminuted, yet angular fragments of bone, mixed with teeth 
of all the varieties of animals above enumerated, lay in the bottom of 
the den, occasionally adhering together by stalagmite, and forming, 
as has been before mentioned, an osseous breccia. Many insulated 
fragments also are wholly or partially enveloped with stalagmite, both 
externally and internally. Not one skull is to be found entire; and 
it is so rare to find a large bone of any kind that has not been more 
or less broken, that there is no hope of obtaining materials for the 
construction of a single limb, and still less of an entire skeleton. The 
jaw bones also, even of the hyaenas, are broken to pieces like the rest; 
and in the case of nearly all the animals, the number of teeth and of 
the solid bones of the tarsus and carpus is more than twenty times as 
