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that lay perhaps more equally distributed than they are at present. 
Since this event, the accumulation of stalagmite on the surface of the 
mud, and in the interstices of the hollow masses of bones and peb¬ 
bles, is the only geological change that appears to have taken place: 
the limestone rock of the actual floor rarely projects so as to be visible 
beneath the false floor of diluvial matter and bones with which it is 
overspread; in one place where it does so, in the low passage m, it 
is smooth and highly polished, like the pedestal in Zahnloch; but 
whether from the paws of bears, or the hands and knees of post¬ 
diluvian visitors, or the united action of both, I will not venture to 
determine. I could not ascertain whether there was any stalagmitic 
crust below the mud, as in the cave of Kirkdale. 
CAVE OF KUHLOCH. 
It now remains only to speak of the cave of Kiihloch, which is more 
remarkable than all the rest, as being the only one I have ever seen, 
excepting that of Kirkdale, in which the animal remains have escaped 
disturbance by diluvial action ; and the only one also in which I could 
find the masses of black animal earth, said by other writers to occur 
so generally, and for which many of them appear to have mistaken the 
diluvial loam in which the bones are so universally imbedded. The 
only thing at all like it, that I could find in any of the other caverns, 
were fragments of highly decayed bone, which occurred in the loose 
part of the diluvial sediment in the caves of Scharzfeld, Zahnloch, and 
(railenreuth ; but in the cave of Kiihloch it is far otherwise. It is 
literally true that in this single cavern (the size and proportions of 
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