CAVE OF RABENSTEIN. FEW BONES IN IT. 
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laminae: which would have happened, had the mud been either 
introduced by successive land-floods, or been composed of dust 
falling continually to the floor from the decomposition of the roof. 
2.—CAVE OF RABENSTEIN. 
The cave to which I have assigned this title stands near the 
upper part of the vertical cliff' on which is built the castle of Kaben- 
stein, and immediately under the adjacent chapel of Klaustein, by 
which name also it is sometimes designated. Its position and 
present mouth of entrance are represented in Plate XVIII. c. It is 
less remarkable for bones than the three I am next about to mention; 
and to this circumstance it owes the preservation of a large pro¬ 
portion of the thick stalagmitic crust that is spread over the mud, 
which here also is found to cover the floor, aiid to be mixed with 
pebbles and angular fragments of limestone, and a few bones and 
teeth of bears and other animals. As similar remains are so much 
more abundant, and more easily accessible in other adjacent caverns, 
these few have not afforded sufficient inducement to the searchers 
for bones to rip up the stalagmite which covers the diluvial sediment, 
in which they are here rather sparingly dispersed. The depth of 
this sediment varies from two to six feet, and upwards, and it differs 
in nothing essential from that already and hereafter to be described 
in other caverns. In the few places where the actual floor was 
visible beneath it, there was no subjacent crust of stalagmite. On 
the surface of the upper crust I found scattered loosely the recent 
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