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rectilinear vault of nearly a hundred yards in length, and 
of from ten to twelve feet in width and height. The floor 
is covered with a thick bed of diluvial mud and pebbles, 
occasionally reaching almost to the roof, and composed at 
one extremity chiefly of mud, whilst at the other end 
pebbles predominate. Stalactite and stalagmite are of rare 
occurrence in the cavern of Lunel ; hence neither its bones 
nor earthy contents are cemented into a breccia. On 
examining the bones collected in the cavern by M. Marcel 
de Serres and his associate M. Cristol, Dr. Buck land found 
many of them to bear the marks of gnawing by the teeth 
of ossivorous animals ; he also discovered in the cave an 
extraordinary abundance of balls of album grcecum in the 
highest state of preservation. Both these circumstances, 
so important to establish the fact of the cave of Lunel 
having been inhabited, like that of Kirkdale, as a den of 
hyenas, had been overlooked by the gentlemen above 
mentioned. The more scanty occurrence of stalactite and 
the greater supply of album grcecum in this cavern are 
referred to one and the same cause—viz., the introduction of 
less rain water by infiltration into this cave, than into that 
of Kirkdale ; in the latter case a large proportion of the 
remains of the hyenas appear to have been trodden upon 
and crushed at the bottom of a wet and narrow cave, whilst 
at Lunel they have been preserved in consequence of the 
greater size and dryness of the chamber in which they were 
deposited. The animal remains contained in this cavern 
differ little from those of Kirkdale ; the most remarkable 
addition is that of the beaver and of the badger, together 
with the smaller striped, or Abyssinian, hyena.” 
In October of the same year, while still on his wedding 
tour through the east of France, he visited the Grotte 
d’Ozelles, or Quingey, on the banks of the Doubs, five 
leagues below Besangon. He described the Grotto in a 
French article, from which the following extract is taken :— 
“ La grotte d’Ozelles si celebre par son etendue et par 
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