HUMAN BONES AT KOSTRITZ, NEAR LEIPSIG. 
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this cave had been entirely closed up with stones for the purpose 
of concealment, and its mouth was completely grown over with 
grass. 
5 and 6. F or the particulars of these two cases I refer my readers 
to the descriptions I have already given of the human remains in the 
cave of Paviland, in Glamorganshire, and in the fissure at the back of 
the parks, near Kirby Moorside, in Yorkshire. 
It is obvious, that in none of these cases are the bones referable to 
so high an era as those of the wild beasts that occur in the caves at 
Kirkdale, and elsewhere. 
The 7th and last case I shall mention is one which has re¬ 
cently been published, with a very able and judicious commentary 
by Mr. Weaver, in the Annals of Philosophy for January 1828; 
wherein he gives a translation of Baron SchlotheinTs account of 
human bones discovered in the Valley of the Elster, near Kostritz in 
Saxony, a few leagues south-west of Leipsig, and of which I shall 
subjoin the following abstract. The Valley of the Elster, near 
Kostritz, is flanked by hills, the summits of which are composed of 
limestone, locally called Zechstein, whilst the lower regions contain 
beds and large masses of gypsum. Both limestone and gypsum con¬ 
tain caves and fissures, which are in each case equally filled with a 
mass of loam or clay of the same kind as that which covers the 
adjacent country. In this loam are various pebbles of limestone, and 
of rocks that occur only at a distance, e. g. granite, &c. The principal 
deposits of bone are in the loam which fills the cavities of the lime¬ 
stone : among these there occur at Politz the remains of rhinoceros 5 
horse, ox, hyaena, tiger (or jaguar), and bear; they are in the same 
