.532! ON CAVES CONTAINING BONES 



The hills in which these caverns occur resemble each 

 other in their composition : they are all of limestone, and 



Mendip Hills. Bones of elephants, horses, hogs, of two species of 

 deer, of oxen, the nearly entire skeleton of a fox, and the metacar- 

 pal bone of a large bear, have been found in it. 



3. Cave of Derdham Down, near to Clifton, to the westward of 

 Bristol. Bones of horses were found in it. 



4. Cave of Balleye, near to Warksworth, in Derbyshire. In 1663, 

 teeth of elephants, some of which are still preserved, were found in 

 it. 



5. Cave of Dream, at the village of Callow, near to Warkswortlt,. 

 It was discovered in the year 1822, by some miners in search of lead- 

 ore. Nearly all the bones of a rhinoceros, in a good state of preser- 

 vation, were found enclosed in a bed of mud in this cave. 



6. Fissures and caves at Oreston. These are in transition lime- 

 stone. Bones of the rhinoceros, hysena, tiger, wolf, deer, ox, and 

 horse, have been found in them. 



7- Cave of Nicholaston, near the coast of Glamorgan, in the Bay 

 of Oxwich. In the year 1792, bones of the elephant, rhinoceros, ox, 

 deer, and hyaena, were found in it. 



8. Caves of Paveland, hi the county of Glamorgan, between the 

 Bay of Oxwich and Cape Worms, at the entrance of the English 

 Channel. There are two openings in a cliff thirty or forty feet 

 above the level of the sea, which we cannot reach but at low water. 

 The clergyman and the surgeon of the neighbouring village of Por- 

 tinan found in them a tusk and grinder of an elephant ; afterwards 

 other bones of the elephant, rhinoceros, horse, bear, hysena, fox, 

 wolf, ox, deer, rat, of birds, the skeleton of a woman, and splinters of 

 bones, were also found. But many of these bones are modern ; and 

 the diggings made at remote and unknown periods have displaced 

 the ancient bones, and mixed them with the modern, and also with 

 shells of the present sea. 



Professor Goldfuss, in the llth volume of the Nova Acta Phyai- 

 co-medica Academic Ccesarea Leopoldino-Carolince Naturae Curiosorum, 

 published in 1823, gives an account of the fossil bones he met with 

 in the caves of Westphalia and Franconia. Speaking of the Cave 

 of G-aylenreuth, he says, that Esper has the following remarks on 

 the quantity of bones taken from these caves : 



