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Notice of New Bone Caves discovered at Salleles-Cabardes, in 

 the Depart7nent of Aude^ In France, shewing that Man was 

 j)robabl'y contemporanecnis with the extinct Mammalia yound 

 in them. 



J.HESE caves, lately discovered by MM. Marcel, de Serresand 

 Pitorre, and described in Boue's Journal de Geologie, occur 

 in transition or mountain limestone. The bones found in them 

 are fractured, but not water-worn. They lie as usual in a 

 reddish coloured marly mass, like those in the caves of Bize. 

 The bones are irregularly heaped together ; thus along-side 

 a bear or a fox, we find bones of a deer or a horse. The popu- 

 lation of these caves, like those of Bize, appears essentially cha- 

 racterized by remains of deers and horses. These domestic 

 races, like the wild races with which they are associated, are 

 found of different ages. This circumstance, joined to many 

 other circumstances, announce that the carrying so many bones 

 into the fissure of rocks has been purely accidental. For the 

 diluvial currents that carried in the mud, the fragments and 

 pebbles, rnay also have carried in such bones as they met with 

 in their way. It is at least certain that, at Salleles and Bize, 

 the carnivora could not have assembled all the bones we find 

 there ; because remains of such animals are very rare in these 

 caves, and those that are met with do not belong to such species 

 as have the habitude of carrying into their retreats the animals 

 on which they feed. Bears and wolves, particularly the first, 

 have not this practice, yet they are the principal carnivora met 

 with there. It is true the tooth of a hya?na was found at Sal- 

 leles, but this was the only tooth met with ; and, notwithstand- 

 ing extensive researches, only two pieces of album grcBcum were 

 found. It may, it is true, be objected that the carnivora of 

 the present time, that carry into their dens animals and their 

 remains, on which they feed, do not always leave traces of their 

 existence in these subterranean places. In regard to the album 

 grcBcum or coprolite, found lately in the caves of Bize, it does 

 not belong to the hyfcna, but to wolves and foxes. 



The following is n list of animal remains found in the caverns 

 of Salleles and Bize. 



