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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



fe belong, as is inferred with 



and lime, in clefts and chafms of the flrata *. 



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Sometimes human bones are faid to be found in 

 thefe confufed maffes. 



405. A very remarkable collection of bones in 

 this ftate is found in the caves of Bayreuth in Fran- 

 conia. Manyofth( 



great certainty from the ftrudure of their teeth, 

 to a carnivorous animal of vail lize, and having 

 very little affinity to any of thofe that are now- 

 known. The bones are found in different ftates, 

 fome being without any (laladitical concretion, 

 and having the calcareous earth ftill united to 



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the phofphoric acid, fo that they belong to the 

 third, rather than the fecond, of the preceding di- 



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vifions. In others, the phofphoric acid has wholly 

 difappeared, and given place to the carbonic. 



The number of thefe bones, accumulated in 

 the fame place, is matter of allonifhment, when 



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it is confidered, that the animals to which they 

 belonged were carnivorous, fo that more than 

 two can never have lived in the fame cavern at 



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the fame time. The caves of Bayreuth feem to 

 have been the den and the tomb of a whole dy- 

 nafty of unknown monilers, that ilTued from this 



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central fpot to devour the feebler inhabitants of 

 the woods, during a long fucceffion of ages, be- 



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