. The testimony of the rocks; . ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS. (Mammoth.) Great British Elephant,everywhere a remarkable one; and nowhere was it more so 128 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL than in the British islands. Our present mammaliferousfauna is rather poor; but the contents of the later depositsshow that we must regard it as but a mere fragment of avery noble one. Associated with species that still exist inthe less cultivated parts of the country, such as the badger, Ficr. TROGONTHERIUM CUVIERI. Gigantic Beaver. {Pleistocene.) the fox, the wild cat, the roe and the red deer, we find theremains of great

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. The testimony of the rocks; . ELEPHAS PRIMIGENIUS. (Mammoth.) Great British Elephant,everywhere a remarkable one; and nowhere was it more so 128 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL than in the British islands. Our present mammaliferousfauna is rather poor; but the contents of the later depositsshow that we must regard it as but a mere fragment of avery noble one. Associated with species that still exist inthe less cultivated parts of the country, such as the badger, Ficr. TROGONTHERIUM CUVIERI. Gigantic Beaver. {Pleistocene.) the fox, the wild cat, the roe and the red deer, we find theremains of great animals, whose congeners must now besought for in the intertropical regions. Britain, during thetimes of the boulder clay, and for ages previous, had its Fig. 75.

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