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The bottom and walls of this cave are furnished with 

 the same mud as the others, but blacker. The. bones 

 were pretty numerous, and tinged with the same colour, 

 but only two tolerably entire skulls were obtained. 

 That of which M. Kocher gives a figure, is the species 

 of bear named Ursus spelceus. There are also caves of 

 this kind in Westphalia. J. Es Silberschlag, in the Mem. 

 des Naturalistes of Berlin (Schriften, vol. vi. p. 132), 

 describes the one called Kluter-hcehle^ near the village of 

 Oldenforde, in the county of Mark, on the edge of the 

 Milspe and Ennepe, two streams which fall into the 

 Ruhr, and with it into the Rhine. Its entrance is about 

 half-way up a hill called Kluterberg^ is only three feet 

 three inches high, and faces the south. The cave itself 

 forms a true labyrinth in the interior of the mountain. 



Not far from this, in the same county, at Sundwich, 

 two leagues from Iserlohn, is another cave, which, for 

 about twenty-five years back, has furnished a very large 

 quantity of bones, part of which has been carried to 

 Berlin, and the rest has remained in the country in the 

 hands of various individuals *. 



If we cast a glance upon a general map, it is not dif- 

 ficult to perceive a certain continuity in the mountains 

 in which these singular caves occur. The Carpathians 

 join with the mountains of Moravia and those of Bohe- 

 mia called Bcehmerzvald, to separate the basin of the 

 Danube, from those of the Vistula, Oder and Elbe. 

 The Fichtelgebirge separates the basin of the Elbe from 



" Further information in regard to these caves will be found in 

 Leonhard Taschenb. der Min. vii. 2. S. 439 ; and in Noggerath's 

 Gebirge in Rheinland-Westphalen, ii. S. 27. and iii. 1. 13. 



