SUnrBRRANEOUS WONBERS. ^||( 
the roof to the floor, with diameters equal to that of ; 
mast of a first-rate sliip of the line. The incrustation ^ 
the floor, caused by falling drops from the stalactites ab 
had grown up into dendritic and vegetable forms, y j,(i 
first .suggested to Tournefort the strange notion 
having here discovered the vegetation of stones. 
lion itself has been considered as a species of crystal jy 
tion ; and as the proce.ss of crystallization is so surp/t^®,!, 
manifested by several phacnomena in this grotto, som® 
logy may perhaps be allowed to exist between the f ^ 
and the stone ; but it cannot be said, that a 
life existing in the former has been imparted to the 
ITie last chamber into vdiich we descended surpra’^j^^. 
more by the grandeur of its exhibition tlian any /’ y,;t 
Probably there are many other chambers below 
unexplored, for no attempt has been made to pee^ |^,|i 
farther: and, if this be tme, the new caverns, ji 
opened, would appear in perfect splendour, unsnlli*’^ 
any part of them, by the smoke of torches, or oy 
hands of intruders.” 
CAVERNS IN GERMANY AND HUNGA 
lit' 
CONTAINING FOSSIG HONES. 
Among the most remarkable of these caverns are 
tho/ 
Gaylenreuth, on the confines of Kayrcnih. The e| 
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to these, which is about seven feet and a half higi’’. Je 
the foot of a rock of lime-stone of considerable nutg'" , jiij 
and in its eastern side. Immediately beyond the 
is a raagniticent grotto, of about three hundred fce| 
cumference, which has been naturally divided by 
of the roof into tour caves, 
feet long and wide, and varies in height from 
The first is about iwcB^ iC 
eighteen feet, the roof being formed into irregulf'’ j 
Beyond this is the second cave, about twenty-Big'' 
lottg, and of nearly the same width and height 
former. 
A low and very rugged passage, the roof of ,|iiC* 
farmed of projecting pieces of rocks, leads to th® 
l^fDtto, the opening into which is a hole three ft® 
