. The testimony of the rocks; . 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. URSUS SPEL^US. Cave Bear. {Pleistocene.) native elephant, its two species of rhinoceros, its hippopot-amus, its hyaBna, its tiger, its three species of bears, its two HISTORY OF ANIMALS. 129 species of beavers, its great elk, and its gigantic deer. Formsnow found widely a
. The testimony of the rocks; . 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. URSUS SPEL^US. Cave Bear. {Pleistocene.) native elephant, its two species of rhinoceros, its hippopot-amus, its hyaBna, its tiger, its three species of bears, its two HISTORY OF ANIMALS. 129 species of beavers, its great elk, and its gigantic deer. Formsnow found widely apart, and in very different climates, meetwithin the British area. During at least the earlier times ofthe group, the temperature of our island seems to have beenvery much what it is now. As I have already had occasionto remark, the British oak flourished on its plains and lowerslopes, and the birch and Scotch fir on its hUls. And yetunder these famihar trees the lagomys or tailless hare, aform now mainly restricted to Siberia and the wilds of Nor-thern America, and the reindeer, an animal whose properhabitat at the present time is Lapland, were associated withforms that are now only to be found between the tropics,such as that of the hippopotamus and rhinoceros. These last,however, unequivocally of extinct species, s
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