106 CASES WHERE THEY HAVE EEEN SO FOUND. 
to the latter, prefer sucking the blood to eating the flesh, whilst 
hyaenas are beyond all other beasts addicted to eating bones. 
From this circumstance it is indeed probable, that in the caves 
inhabited chiefly by bears, the bones of other animals should be 
extremely rare; they are not, however, wholly wanting. M. De Luc 
(Lettres, vol. iv. p. 588) mentions that the remains of rhinoceros have 
been found in the cave of Scharzfeld, and ascertained by Professor 
Hollman, of Gottingen, to belong to that animal; and M. Soemmer¬ 
ing informed me, that he is assured of the fact, having seen the tooth 
of the animal here alluded to in Hollman’s collection at Gottingen : 
an account of it is given by Hollman in the Comment: Gottingens : 
M. Esper also mentions, that bones of elephants have been found by 
M. Frischmann in the cave of Schneiderloch; and speaking of Zahn- 
loch, his words are, “On a trouve ici des morceaux des dents d’elephant, 
ce que les fragmens prouvent incontestablement, la forme, la croiss- 
ance, la structure interne, et en general tous les characteres, mettent 
hors de doute la realite de cette production.” And Mr. Sack, of 
Bonn, whom I have before quoted, has found in the cave of Sund- 
wick, within the last two years, the molar teeth and foot bones of 
the rhinoceros, and the horns, jaws, and other bones of deer, in the 
same cave with the remains of the hyaena, glutton, and two extinct 
species of bear; they have moreover the marks of teeth on them, and 
their softer parts and condyles have been gnawed off. Hence it 
follows, that graminivorous animals occur, though rarely, in the caves 
of Germany; and they may either have been washed in together 
with the diluvial loam and pebbles, or have been dragged in for prey 
by the few hyaenas that occasionally intruded. That the elephant 
