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no attention was paid to the subject of fossil bones, he did not regard 
them, although he must have discovered some of them, for he work- 
ed among the mud sufficiently to discover the earthen ware. 
The second of these caverns is called Baume Rouge, from the 
fragments of red argillaceous marl disseminated through the mud, 
and which, from their lively hues, have given to the mud of this 
cavern its intense color. . It is the same with the Baume de Mar- 
couire, which has long served as a sheep-fold, in which the flocks of 
the neighborhood are sheltered in unfavorable weather. 
The bones, therefore, in the caves of Fauzan, (the number of 
which is really remarkable,) consisting of terrestrial mammifere, 
reptiles and birds, are accompanied by various specimens of pot- 
tery. Some of these appear to have been made of argillaceous 
marl, which prior to the manufactory had not been washed, and 
which had been dried only in the sun or before a fire. Others, of 
less thickness, had been made with more care. Thus at Fauzan, 
as at Bize, Pondres and Souvignargues, species, considered hitherto 
as antediluvian, are entombed in the same mud or sediment in which 
are found objects of human fabric,—facts which induce the hope 
that we may find the bones of our own species. 
These observations confirm then fully what we have advanced, 
relative to the novelty of the phenomena of the filling up of bone 
caves—phenomena ‘which appear to have been posterior, not only 
to the existence of man, but to the inventions of art; for besides the 
Pottery, you know that our caves contain bones of species supposed 
to be lost, worked anteriorly to their interment, by the hand of — 
The caves of Fauzan are not the only ones which we have dis- 
Covered, since I had the pleasure of showing you my collections. 
Thad Presumed that the caves of Vigan, an account of which you 
have given to the Academy, were certainly not the only ones of the 
valley of Herault in which bones existed. I have, in fact, discov- 
ered others much nearer to Montpelier than those of Vigan ; I shall 
have the pleasure of acquainting you with them hereafter. I allude 
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