404 Account of some remarkable Caves 
pale, which in part may be owing to the coolness of the air, 
and in part likewise to the particular exhalations within the 
caves. A very narrow, winding, and troublesome passage 
opens farther into a 
Third cave , or chamber of a roundish form, and about 30 
feet diameter, covered all over with stalactites. Very near its 
entrance there is a perpendicular descent of about 20 feet, 
into a dark and frightful abyss ; a ladder must be brought to 
descend into it, and caution is necessary in using it, on ac- 
count of the rough and slippery stalactites. When you are 
down, you enter into a gloomy cave of about 15 feet diame- 
ter, and 30 feet high, making properly but a segment of the 
third cave. 
In the passage to this third cave, some teeth and fragments 
of bones are found ; but coming down to the pit of the cave, 
you are every way surrounded by a vast heap of animal re- 
mains. The bottom of this cave is paved with a stalactical 
crust of near a foot in thickness ; large and small fragments 
of all sorts of bones are scattered every where on the surface 
of the ground, or are easily drawn out of the mouldering rub- 
bish. The very walls seem filled with various and innu- 
merable teeth and broken bones. The stalactical covering of 
the uneven sides of the cave does not reach quite down to its 
bottom, whereby it plainly appears that this vast collection of 
animal rubbish, some time ago filled a higher space in the cave, 
before the bulk of it sunk by mouldering. 
This place is in appearance very like a large quarry of 
sandstones ; and indeed the largest and finest blocks of osteo- 
lithical concretes might be hewn out in any number, if there 
was but room enough to come to them, and to carry them 
