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of things in Central France. There the old cave-folk lived,
apparently, upon the Horse and the Reindeer equally, for from
their remains it is quite evident they must have hunted them
season and season about. It is interesting to notice that the
remains of these animals are spread over all the metropolitan
area, even beneath the ground upon which the New Natural
History Museum is built. Beneath us is the old river-valley
gravel of the Thames, and in it were found remains of the
Mammoth and the Ox. In Gray's Inn Lane the skeleton
of a Mammoth and a palaeolithic flint implement were
Fig. 8.—Skull and lower jaw of Rhinoceros leptorhinus, Owen, from the
Pleistocene Brick-earth of the Thames Valley, at Ilford, Essex. The
. original, from the collection of the late Sir Antonio Brady, F.G.S., is now
in the British Museum. See Geol. Mag. 1874. Decade II., vol. i., p. 398,
pl. xv. [This woodcut is obligingly lent by Messrs. Cassell & Co., from
their 'Natural History,' vol. ii., p. 334.]
found associated together. In Piccadilly, close to where
Burlington House stands, the remains of Hippopotamus
were found; and also at Peckham and at Woolwich, and
all along the Thames, their remains are more or less
abundant. In the Museum there is a very perfect skull of
Rhinoceros leptorhinus, found at Ilford (fig. 8). Three species
of Rhinoceros occur in these old brick-earths, the Woolly
Rhinoceros which belonged to the northern fauna came south,