384 M. Tournal on the Cave ofBize near Narhonne. 



At Bize, on the contrary, the caves are situated in the oolite 

 limestone. Their entrance is spacious and of easy access. The 

 interior is immense, and choked up at first with a red mud, si- 

 milar, as I have said, to that contained in the caves of Lunel- 

 Vieil. 



I have not been able to procure many bones from this mud, 

 it being necessary to dig through a bed of black mud before one 

 can get at them. Above the red mud has been deposited the 

 black mud just mentioned. It contains an immense quantity of 

 bones. 



This mud is remarkable for its containing, along with human 

 bones, fragments of earthen-ware, modern sea-shells, land-shells, 

 and bones of extinct species. 



There are also, in several places of the caves of Bize, osseous 

 breccias, which appear to me to be nothing but the red and 

 black mud, cemented by calcareous infiltrations. These brecciae 

 are found indifferently on the walls, and even at the roof of the 

 caves. A circumstance which has surprized me, and which de- 

 serves the greatest attention, is the entire absence of large car- 

 nivora, which might have carried in the bones ; but these being 

 perfectly free of gnawing, we must reject that opinion — An- 

 nales des Sc. Nat. Decembei' 1828. 



Meteorological Table, extracted Jrom the Register Inept at Kin- 

 fauns Castle, N. Britain. Lat. BQ"" 23' 30".-— Above the 

 level of the Sea, 140 feet. Communicated by Lord Ghay. 



