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some feet into the subjacent mass of mud, which is also loaded with 
teeth, bones, and pebbles, but not with such large pebbles, or in such 
unusual quantity as in the vault e. The roof and sides of the 
artificial cave i have bones adhering to them, being in fact composed 
of a breccia of bones and agglutinated mud; but in none of the 
natural chambers do we find bones adhering to the side and roof 
above the surface of the mud and stalagmite. 
All these circumstances are corroborative of the hypothesis I am 
endeavouring to establish. First, That the agent, by which the mud 
and pebbles were introduced, was the same diluvial waters, which 
extirpated the animals that had antecedently inhabited the .cave. 
Secondly, That this diluvial detritus was not introduced at different 
intervals by the action of rivers, or land-floods, but was by one single 
operation superadded to the bones already existing in the dens. 
Thirdly, That the period of its introduction is that from which 
we must begin to date the formation of the superficial crust of 
stalagmite, by which these diluvian and antediluvian records have 
been sealed up, and maintained in such high preservation to the 
present hour. 
CAVE OF BIELS HOHLE. 
This cavern is said to have derived its name from a heathen 
temple that formerly stood on the edge of the cliff immediately 
above it, and of which some traces still exist: its position is at the 
distance of but a few hundred yards from the Baumans Hohle, last 
described; and at nearly the same elevation in the cliffs on the op- 
