JJ4 subterraneous WOUPEXS. ^ j|i 
height, and about half as much in its diameter, in 
a truncated columnar stalactite, eight feet in 
^T'^narrow and most difficult passage, twenty 
length, leads from this cavern to another, tive-and- 
lenetn, xeaus iiuui . . 
feet in height, which is every where beset wiO y 
bones, and stalactitic projections This cavern is su ,( 
bones, and stalactitic piojeeuu.o. 
contracted, so as to form a vestibule of six feet wi 
long, and nine high, terminating in an 
the floor, only three feet wide and two high, ^ 
which it is necessary to writhe, with tlie body 
ground. This leads into a small cave, eight tee 
fnT wide, which is ffie passage into a grotto. 
avC’ 
and wiae, wuicu is -- --- - ° , jr ' 
eight feet high, and about three-anl-forty leet loi » 
wide. Here die prodigious quantdy of animal eart ^ 
vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, 
vast numoer m icou,, j...... — - - ^ 
heavy grouping of the stalactites, produce so disn 
JppeLance, as to become a perfect model of a teibP^ 
a god of the dead. Here hundreds of cart-loads 
remains might be removed, pockets might be flU |t 
fossil teeth, and animal earth was found to reaefl ^ 
utmost depth to which the workmen dug. A ^ 
stalactite, being here broken down, was found t f 
pieces of bones within it, the remnants of which w 
imbedded in the rock. -ocssirei 111 
From this principal cave is a very narrow passao^j 
minating in the last cave, which is about six feet i ^ 
fifteen in height, and the same in • “’ a 
were no animal remains, and die floor was the iiake 
Thus fiir only could these natural sepulchres be 
but there is every reason to suppose, that these 
remains were disposed through a greater part 
I'ock f 
Whence this immense quantity of the remains o J 
vorous animals could have been ccffiected, is j,(il* 
which naturally ariseg j but the difficulty of an 
appears to be sjiinost insurmountable. 
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