1^6 Account of a Cavern in SojnerfftJJ/ire. 



are in each fide of each jaw five or fix in number. In the 

 lower jaw each grinder has two fliarp points ; in the tipper 

 jaw each, except the firft pair, has three points. 



The neck is very fliort, and fo covered with hair as to be 

 ffcarceh' obfervable. The {boulders are high and round, with 

 a deep cavity between them. The body at the {boulders is 

 much wider than at the haifnches. The buttocks are bare. 



The tail is naked, round, and blunt: it is turned up at 

 the end; A {Irong hooked claw in place of the thumb. No 

 carpus nor metacarpus. Four long fingers ferve to diflend 

 the membrane of the wing. The hind-feet have five di{linft 

 toes, wich Imall fharp chws. The membrane of the wings 

 joins the hinder legs and tail, but rt is not nearly fo long as 

 the latter. A broad hairy lift furrounds all round the body, 

 and covers the bottom of the membrane. 



The drawing and defcriplion were taken from a male. I 

 could obferve no nipples. 



The natives of Bengal have only two names for all the 

 fpecies of bats found in their country. The large bats-, 

 Xvhich nellle on trees, and Kve chiefly on fruit, they call 

 Badur : thofe which, like the one above defcribed, inhabit 

 caverns and old buildingsy and live chie{ly on infefts, they 

 call Chaj)icheeka. 



Plate IV. reprefcnts the Vefpertilio pUcaU/s of nearly one- 

 lialf its naitural fize.- 



XI. Account of a Cavern dif covered on the Nortb-JVeJl Side 

 of the Mendip Hills, in Somerfetfhire. By Georok 

 Smith Giebes, M.B. F.L.S.* 



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ERHAPS the following accounPt of a cavern which 1 

 vifitcd fome time fince may be acceptable, as we there fee 

 the procefs going on, which Nature employs to enclofe fo- 

 reign fubftances in the harder rocks. 



At the bottom of a deep ravine on the north-weft fide of 

 the Mendip hills, in Somerfetfhire, near the little village of 

 Berrington, there has been dlfcovered a cavern of confiderabre 

 * From the T'ranJa^Uotis of the Lirmivan Suciety, Vol. V. 



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