(d) A bed of red cave-earth, sometimes four feet in thickness,
with numerous bones of extinct Mammals (Mammoth, Cave-bear, &c.),
together with human implements of flint and horn.
(e) A second bed of stalagmite, in places twelve feet in thickness,
with bones of the Cave-bear.
(f) A red-loam and cave-breccia, with remains of the Cave-bear
and human implements.
The most important Mammals which are found in cave-deposits in
Europe generally, are the Cave-bear, the Cave-lion, the Cave-hyaena,
the Reindeer, the Musk-ox, the Glutton, and the Lemming--of which
the first three are probably identical with existing forms, and
the remainder are certainly so--together with the Mammoth and
the Woolly Rhinoceros, which are undoubtedly extinct. Along with
these are found the implements, and in some cases the bones, of
Man himself, in such a manner as to render it absolutely certain
that an early race of men was truly contemporaneous in Western
Europe with the animals above mentioned.
IV. UNCLASSIFIED POST-PLIOCENE DEPOSITS.--Apart from any of the
afore mentioned deposits, there occur other accumulations--sometimes
superficial, sometimes in caves--which are found in regions where
a "Glacial period" has not been fully demonstrated, or where
such did not take place; and which, therefore, are not amenable
to the above classification.
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