104 EXTENT OF CAVES ON THE CONTINENT. 
and refer to M. Cuvier’s Animaux fossiles, for further details taken 
from the authors by whom these caves have been described. 
The caves alluded to are as follows: 
1. That of Scharzfeld, in Hanover, in the south border of the 
Hartz, described by Leibnitz, He Luc, and Bruckmann. 
Behrens, in his Hercynia Curiosa, speaks of several more in the 
neighbourhood of the Hartz; from most of these the bones were 
collected during a long course of years, and sold for their imaginary 
medicinal virtues, as the bones of the Licorne, or fossil Unicorn, of 
which a most absurd drawing is given by Leibnitz in his Protogaea. 
2 . That of Bauman, in the county of Blankenberg, in Brunswick, 
on the east border of the Hartz forest, and described by Leibnitz and 
De Luc. 
3. The caves that next attracted attention were those of the Car¬ 
pathians, and the bones found in them were at first known by the 
name of dragons’ bones, and have been described by Hayne and 
Bruckmann. 
4. But the most richly furnished are the Caves of Franconia, 
described by Esper and Rosenmuller, near the sources of the Mayn, 
between Nurenburg, Bamberg, and Bayreuth, in the vicinity of 
Muggendorf, and known by the names of Gailenreuth, Mockas, 
Zahnloch, Zewig, Rabenstein, Schneiderlock, and Kuhloch. 
5. A fifth locality occurs at Gliicksbrun and Leibenstein, near 
Meinungen, on the south-west border of the Thuringerwald. 
6. And a sixth in Westphalia, at Kluterhoehle and Sundwick, in 
the country of Mark. An account of these is shortly to be published 
by Professor Goldfuss and Mr. A. L. Sack, of Bonn. 
