540 ON CAVES CONTAINING BONES. 



of them covering the names of MM. Esper and Rosen- 

 muller, whose visits did not date thirty years before his 

 own. The rolled stones that are met with, and the marks 

 of detrition observed on some bones, announce, at the 

 very utmost, but passing currents. 



But how have so many ferocious animals which peo- 

 pled our forests been extirpated ? All the reply we can 

 make is, that they must have been destroyed at the same 

 time, and by the same cause, as the large herbivora, 

 which, like them, also peopled these forests, and of which 

 no traces remain at the present day any more than of 

 them. 



ACCOUNT OF THE CAVE CONTAINING BONES AT ADELS- 

 BEBG IN CARNIOLA. 



THE following interesting account of the cave, slight- 

 ly noticed at pages 524 and 525, is extracted from a me- 

 moir by M. Bertrand Geslin, Member of the Natural 

 History Society of Paris, published in the number of the 

 Annales des Sciences Naturelles for April 1826. 



M. Cuvier, says Gesler, speaking of the Adelsberg 

 Cave, from the account published by M. Volpi of Trieste, 

 says, that it was nearly two leagues from the entrance 

 where he discovered bones of animals. 



Having visited this cave myself, I am obliged to say 

 that M. VolpTs assertion as to this matter is not very 

 correct. On my way to Trieste, in July 1823, before 

 going to Adelsberg, I had the advantage of seeing M. 

 Volpi. In shewing me the bones collected by him at 



