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serts, that it was called Klaustein, or St Nicholas's 

 Rocky after a chapel of this name, which formerly stood 

 upon it. There are still the Geiss-knok, or Goat Cave, 

 and a cave discovered in 1793. M. Rosenmiiller found 

 in them two human skeletons already covered with sta- 

 lactite. 



The country which surrounds this small peninsula 

 has itself several caves, independently of that of Gaylen- 

 reuth, as those of Mockas, Rabenstein, and Kirch-ahorn, 

 three villages, situate, the first to the south, and the 

 other two to the north-east of Gaylenreuth. Bones were 

 formerly found in the first. The last bears in the coun- 

 try the expressive name of Zahn-loch, or Tooth Cave; 

 it also bears the name of Hohen-mirscJifeld, a viUage on 

 whose ground it is situate; and the country people 

 have long been in the habit of seeking in it those bones, 

 which they imagined to be medicinal. MM. Rosenmiil- 

 ler and Goldfuss have in fact found bear and tiger bones. 

 There are two others in the territory of the same village, 

 of which the one named Schneider-loch (Tailor's Hole), 

 is said to have furnished the vertebrae of an elephant. 

 That of Zewig, close upon Waschenfeld, at the very 

 edge of the Wiesent, is nearly 80 feet deep ; and it is said 

 that skeletons of men and wolves were found in it. 



All these hills, containing caves in their interior, and 

 situate so near each other, seem to form a small chain, 

 interrupted only by brooks, and which joins the more 

 elevated chain of the Fichtelberg, in which are the 

 highest mountains of Franconia, and from which flow 

 the Main, the Saale, the Eger, the Naab, and many 

 small rivers. M. Rosenmiiller, and after him, others 

 assert, that those which are in the hills to the north of 



