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contain with the bones of the bear, any remains belonging, 

 either to tigers or hyenas, or to the herbivorous animals, the 

 cotemporaries of these ancient races, and whose ordinary 

 presence in these caves has been explained by the voracity 

 of the hyenas, who are supposed to have dragged them 

 thither to devour them. 



M. Cuvier supposes that these bones belonged to animals 

 which have lived and died peacebly in this retreat. Their 

 state of preservation does not allow the idea that they could 

 have been collected together by currents of water, or in any 

 other manner. They were amassed by the occupation of 

 the cave, for a long series of years by this animal, and after- 

 wards buried by the sand, brought thither by some great in- 

 undation. — Bull. Univ. Sept. 1827. 



2. Analysis of the massive Cinnamon Stone. — M. Lau- 

 gier has found the massive cinnamon stone of Ceylon to be 

 composed of 



Silex, - 38 Alumine, - 19 



Lime, - 33 Ox. Iron, - 7 



He regards it as a silicate of lime and alumine, with an 

 accidental portion of iron. — Ibid. 



3. Mines of Gold and Platina in the Ural Mountains. — ■ 

 Nijno'i Tagil is a foundery situated forty leagues to the north 

 of Jekaterinenbourg. The annual product of this place 

 is one hundred and fifty thousand quintals of iron, twelve 

 thousand of copper, fifty pounds of gold, and eighteen of 

 platina. They are taken from a mountain of four or five 

 hundred feet in elevation, composed of magnetic iron, near 

 the borders of the river Tagil. Three other founderies exist 

 upon the borders of the Outka : the river upon which these 

 substances are transported to St. Petersburgh. Primitive 

 clay slate exists here, with numerous veins of quartz in the 

 direction of north and south, and inclining towards the east. 

 The crest of the Ural consists of serpentine, near the mid- 

 dle of which at the western foot of the mountain Pugnia, 

 immediately under the soil, in the decomposing and efflores- 

 cing talcose slate, is found a great quaintity of platina, ac- 

 companied by gold, and rarely by native lead. At the 

 north east on the contrary, the platina is found connected 

 with a blue limestone in a decomposed green porphyry. At 

 Kuschva (seven leagues to the north of the first place) is 

 found a quantity of sodalite, in a mountain also of magnet- 



