ried in mud and gravel, and of searching for the aperture through 

 which all these extraneous substances have been introduced. These 

 operations have exposed a long rectilinear vault of nearly 100 yards 

 in length and of from ten to twelve feet in width and height- The 

 floor is covered with a thick bed of diluvial mud and pebbles, occa- 

 sionally reaching almost to the roof, and composed at one extremity 

 chiefly of mud, whilst at the other end, pebbles predominate. 



In another quarry of calcaire grossier a few miles distant, some 

 vertical fissures are filled with similar materials to those within the 

 cavern, and containing occasionally a few bones, sometimes cemented 

 by calcareous infiltrations into a breccia like that of Gibraltar, Cette, 

 and Nice. These materials are similar in substance to, and are 

 uninterruptedly connected with, a superficial bed of diluvium that 

 covers the surface of these quarries, and are identical with the ge- 

 neral mass of diluvial detritus of the neighbourhood. 



Stalactite and stalagmite are of rare occurrence in the cavern of 

 Lunel ; hence neither its bones nor earthy contents are cemented 

 into a breccia. 



On examining the bones collected in the cavern by M. Marcel de 

 Serres and his associate M. Cristol, Dr. Buckland found many of 

 them to bear the marks of gnawing by the teeth of ossivorous ani- 

 mals : he also discovered in the cave an extraordinary abundance 

 of balls of album graecum in the highest state of preservation. Both 

 these circumstances, so important to establish the fact of the cave 

 of Lunel having been inhabited, like that of Kirkdale, as a den of 

 hyaenas, had been overlooked by the gentlemen above mentioned. 

 The more scanty occurrence of stalactite, and the greater supply 

 of album graecum in this cavern than in those of England, (see 

 Reliquice Diluviance , vol. i.) are referred to one and the same cause, 

 viz. the introduction of less rain water by infiltration into this cave, 

 than into that of Kirkdale: — in the latter case a large proportion of 

 the fecal balls of the hyaenas appear to have been trod upon and 

 crushed at the bottom of a wet and narrow cave, whilst at Lunel 

 they have been preserved in consequence of the greater size and 

 dryness of the chamber in which they were deposited. 



M. Marcel de Serres has published a list of the animal remains 

 contained in this cavern, which differ but little from those of Kirk- 

 dale: the most remarkable addition is that of the Beaver and the 

 Badger, together with the smaller striped, or Abyssinian, Hyaena. 

 For these discoveries we are indebted to the exertions of M. Cristol, 

 a young naturalist of Montpelier, whose observations on the geology 

 of that district the author found to be in perfect accordance with 

 his own. 



With respect to the bones of Camels said to have been discovered 

 in this cavern, Dr. Buckland found on comparing rigidly the only 

 bone which was supposed to be of that animal with the proportions 

 given in Cuvier, that it certainly does not belong to the Camel. In 

 some few parts of the diluvial mud there occur the bones of Rabbits 

 and Rats; and M. Cristol has also discovered the leg of a Domestic 

 Cock. All these Dr. B. found on examination to be of recent origin 

 (not adhering to the tongue when dry, as do the antediluvian bones). 



