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40 in breadth, and 18 in height ; it then turns to the west 

 for 70 feet, becoming lower and lower until at length 

 the height is only 5 feet. The passage which leads to 

 the third cave is very inconvenient, and one has to turn 

 through various corridores : it is 30 feet across, and from 

 5 to 6 in height. The ground in it is kneaded with 

 teeth and jaws. Near the entrance is a pit of from 15 

 to 20 feet, to which one descends by a ladder. After 

 having descended, we come to a vault of 15 feet diame- 

 ter by 30 in height ; and towards the side at which the 

 descent is made there is a cave strewed with bones. On 

 still descending a little, a new arcade is met with, which 

 leads to a cave 40 feet long, and a new pit of from 

 18 to 20 feet deep. After descending this, we reach 

 a cavern about 40 feet high, all strewed with bones. 

 A passage, of 5 feet by 7, leads to a grotto of 25 feet in 

 length by 12 in breadth. Canals, 20 feet in length, con- 

 duct to another grotto of 20 feet in height. Lastly, 

 there is another cave, 83 feet broad and 24 high, in 

 which more bones are found than in any of the others. 



The sixth cave, which is the last, has a northerly di- 

 rection, so that the whole series of caves and passages 

 nearly describes a semicircle. 



A fissure in the third cave led to the discovery, in 

 1784, of a new cave, 15 feet long and 4 broad, in which 

 the greatest quantities of hyena and lions' bones were 

 found. The aperture was much too small for these ani- 

 mals to have passed through it. A particular canal 

 which ended in this small cave has afforded an incredible 

 number of bones and large skulls entire. 



In the Philosophical Transactions of 1822, pi. xxvi. 

 there may be seen a profile of this cave, taken on the 



