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XXII. Account of some remarkable Caves in the Principality of 
Bayreuth, and of the fossil Bones found therein. Extracted 
from a Paper sent , with Specimens of the Bones, as a Present 
to the Royal Society, by his most Serene Highness the Mar- 
grave of Anspach, & c. 
Read January 10, 1793. 
A. ridge of primeval mountains runs almost through Ger- 
many, in a direction nearly from west to east ; the Hartz, the 
mountains of Thuringia, the Fichtelberg in Franconia, are 
different parts of it, which in their farther extent constitute 
the Riesenberg, and join the Carpathian mountains; the 
highest parts of this ridge are granite, and are flanked by 
alluvial and stratified mountains, consisting chiefly of lime- 
stone, marl, and sandstone ; such at least is the tract of hills 
in which the caves to be spoken of are situated, and over 
these hills the main road leads from Bayreuth to Erlang, or 
Nurenberg. Half way to this town lies Streitberg, where 
there is a post, and but three or four English miles distant 
from thence are the caves mentioned, near Gailenreuth and 
Klausstein, two small villages, insignificant in themselves, but 
become famous for the discoveries made in their neighbour- 
hood. 
The tract of hills is there broken off by many small and 
narrow vallies, confined mostly by steep and hign rocks, here 
and there overhanging, and threatening, as it were, to fall 
