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periods much later than those of the bear, tigers and 

 hyenas *. 



The small peninsula situate nearly opposite to this cave, 

 presents several other caves, as the Schanstein, or Beauti- 

 ful Rock, which contains seven contiguous caverns. The 

 Brunnenstein, or Fountain RocJc, in which, according to 

 Esper, there are only found bones of known species, 

 such as badgers, dogs, foxes, hogs, and deer ; but Esper 

 had too little anatomical knowledge for his testimony to 

 be entirely relied on with respect to this. These bones 

 are sometimes encrusted with stalactite. It contains also 

 the Holeberg, or Hollow Mountain, in which eight or 

 ten caves form a series of 200 feet in length, with two 

 entrances. Bones of the same bears as at Gaylenreuth, 

 are found here in various lateral depressions ; and there 

 are also deer and hogs. The Wizerloch, so named from 

 an ancient Sclavonic deity formerly worshipped there, 

 the most dismal cavern of the whole country, situate in 

 its most elevated part, and in which some vertebrae have 

 been found. It is more than 200 feet long. The 

 Wunderhoehle, which takes its name from its discoverer, 

 has been known since 1773: its extent is 160 feet. 

 Lastly, the Cave of Klaustein, consisting of four grottoes, 

 and upwards of 200 feet deep. Bones have been found 

 in the third grotto, and most abundantly towards its ex- 

 tremity. It might be supposed that the name Klaustein 

 signified Claw-rock , and it would thus accord very well 

 with a place where, without doubt, as at Gaylenreuth, 

 a multitude of ungual phalanges of bears and animals of 

 the tiger kind have been found. But M. Goldfuss as- 



Rosenmuller, Beschreib. des Hohlenharen, s. 2. 



