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Adelsberg, he also assured me that they were found two 

 leagues from the entrance of the cave, and only in a very 

 compact block of several cubic feet, from which it was 

 not possible to procure more, as he had taken all that he 

 could easily remove. 



Notwithstanding this discouraging account, I betook 

 myself to Adelsberg, in order to see a sample of those 

 immense caverns of secondary limestone. The entrance 

 of the cave is situated in a white compact secondary 

 limestone, lying in great beds inclined to the south-west, 

 at an angle of from 30 to 35 degrees. At fifty paces from 

 the entrance, we find ourselves as in a large apartment, 

 which crosses the torent of the Pinka. After passing to 

 the left bank of this torrent, we enter a rather low and 

 not long passage, which leads to a second apartment of 

 an elongated form. It is here that the line of chambers 

 truly commences. They are of large but variable dimen- 

 sions, and are situated nearly upon a horizontal plane. 



On entering this second chamber, I saw that the 

 ground was formed of a yellow and reddish clayey 

 mud, from one to two feet thick, and more or less 

 impregnated and covered with crusts of yellow stalag- 

 mites. In the places where it offered little resistance, I 

 dug it up with the point of my hammer, and was fortu- 

 nate enough to disunite some fragments of bone, al- 

 though, from what had been said to me, I ought not to 

 have expected to find them. From this I was convinced, 

 that if M. Volpi had only found bones at a distance of 

 two leagues from the entrance, it was because he had 

 not been at the trouble to search for them nearer. I 

 fell to work with more ardour, and succeeded in digging 



