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Aiit. X. — Account of the Great Cave of Gailenreutli in Franco s 
nia, and of the Cave of Kirkdale in Yorkshire. With a Plate, 
nn : 
JL HE recent discovery of the cave of Kirkdale, near Kirby 
Moorside, in Yorkshire, containing an assemblage of the bones 
of elephants, rhinoceroses, bears, tigers, and hyaenas, has ex- 
cited a great degree of interest among all classes, and given rise 
to very curious geological speculations, respecting the period 
when these fossil remains were deposited, and the means by 
which they have been conveyed into their present subterraneous 
habitation. 
The details of comparative anatomy which these speculations 
involve, are too extensive for the pages of a J ournal, and the 
geological conclusions which have been founded on them, and 
which Professor Buckland has rendered so very interesting, be- 
long to another department of this work. Our intention at pre- 
sent is to give an account of these caves, as objects of physical 
geography, and as a continuation of those interesting descrip- 
tions of the Caverns of the Guacharo, the Great Cave of Indi- 
ana, the Ice Cave of Eondeurle, and those in the Jura and the 
Alps, which have already been printed in this Journal. 
Description of the Cave at Gailenreutli . 
The great Cave of Gailenreuth, near Bamberg, in Franconia, 
is represented in section in Plate II. Fig. 1., as drawn on the 
spot by Professor Buckland, in 1816. 
The external mouth of the cavern is in the steep side of a 
hill, and communicates by the entrance passage A, which varies 
in height from five to eight feet, and has a few bones irregu- 
larly scattered along the door. This passage expands internally 
into the first large chamber B, which has stalactites of all sizes 
hanging from its roof, and numerous bones of bears strewed up- 
on its floor. The second chamber C, on a lower level, is sepa- 
rated from the first B, by a perpendicular precipice. The bones 
are scattered more abundantly over its floor than in B, and it 
has probably other branches communicating with it laterally. A 
large aperture D, descends obliquely downwards from C, and 
contains cart-loads of loose bones. The mass E is a compact 
