Misceli. Subj. CIL 



REMARKABLE CAVES. 



Vol. FL Nr. 5ï~ 



Tli e Schulerloch in Bavaria. 



In the large caves of chalk -mountains the 

 water impregnated with dissolved chalk-par- 

 ticles forms, as we know, the stalactites, 

 which lines the interior wails of those caves 

 under various figures, and makes them curious 

 objects of nature. Such a remarkable cave, 

 call'd the Schulerloch, we see here repre- 

 sented. It is met with in the chalk-ra ountain 

 near the river Altmühl in Bavaria, below 

 the village Alt-Essing. The entrance to this 



cave is aloft in the rocky mountain, and at 

 the beginning very painful. But the unwea- 

 ried traveller is sufficiently rewarded by the 

 magnificent rocky hall , that we see here 

 imaged. As to a Gothic dome the pointed 

 arches vault themselves, partly reposing 

 as upon columns on the stalactite -tenons, 

 which reach to the ground, forming in this 

 manner several passages, where the eye of 

 the beholder, deceiv'd by the light of the 

 flambeaux, presumes to perceive altars and 

 other decorations of a church. 



