168 BONES AT KOSTBITZ OF TWO ERAS. 
state as the bones at Gailenreuth and Scharzfeld, and probably of the 
same era. 
The cavities of the gypsum are very numerous, communicating 
with each other, and traversing the rock in all directions: in the loam 
which fills them the bones are dispersed irregularly in clusters, or 
collected in heaps, without order, and at different depths, and have 
been continually discovered from the first opening of these quarries, 
thirty years ago, to the present time. They consist of the following 
animals: 
No. 1. Rhinoceros, deer, ox, jaguar, and hyaena, the same as in 
the limestone cavities, excepting the remains of horse. 
No. 2 . Sheep or roe, fox, weasel, squirrel, field-mouse, shrew- 
mouse, common rat, hamster rat, bat, mole (five por¬ 
tions of the jaw of young ones), hare, rabbit, bat, frog, 
two species of owl, domestic-cock, and man. 
These bones, No. 2 , occur mixed confusedly, not only with one 
another, but also with the bones of the extinct animals; they all 
belong to existing species, and are in various stages of decay, but are 
less calcined than the bones of extinct animals, No. 1. Remains 
similar to them are found also in the soil of the adjacent fields. In 
one quarry (called Winters), the human bones were found eight feet 
below those of rhinoceros, and 26 feet below the surface. It is highly 
probable, as M. Schlotheim himself suggests, from the admixture of 
the bones of so many species of recent animals with the human 
remains in the gypsum quarries, that both these are of later origin 
than those in the limestone; they appear, I think, to have been 
introduced at a subsequent period into the diluvian loam, which 
