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Mr. Clift on some fossil bones 
In those of 1820, one cavern contained bones and teeth of 
the bear; while another contiguous cavity, of apparently 
coeval formation, contained only bones of a deer or antelope ; 
but of which, the genus could not be positively ascertained, 
as neither the teeth, nor horns, nor any part of the head 
were found. 
In the caverns discovered in 1822, which form the subject 
of the present communication, the bones of animals of seve- 
ral distinct genera were found ; namely, the bos, the deer, 
the horse, the hyaena, the wolf, and the fox. These cavities, 
however, communicated with each other, and the bones of 
the different graminivorous animals were found mingled toge- 
ther in the same cavity ; but those of the carnivora at a con- 
siderable distance from each other ; the bones of the hysena 
having been discovered in the cavern marked B in the 
annexed plan, and those of the wolf and fox in the gallery 
marked E. 
Some of the bones and fragments of bones which lay on 
and near the surface of the clay, have acquired a thin crust of 
stalagmite, but in none of them does it appear to have pene- 
trated beyond the surface : the greater number were imbed- 
ded in the stiff clay, which adhered so firmly to them, that 
many were broken by the workmen in separating them from 
the matrix ; and others have fallen to pieces since their expo- 
sure to the air ; but a great proportion of the cylindrical and 
other bones, of the graminivorous animals in particular, are 
still as perfect in form as at the time of the death of the ani- 
mals to which they belonged, and do not exhibit the least 
appearance of having been gnawed or otherwise mutilated. 
The only specimen in this very large assemblage which 
