. The Saturday magazine . anged unsubdued by man before the period of thedeluge. Of these, Forsters Hohle Professor Buckland states tobe the most remarkable he had ever seen, for the beauty ofits roof and the perfection of its stalagmite*. Its heightvaries from ten to thirty feet, and its greatest width is aboutten yards ; in the side vaults, or recesses, which descend, atan angle of about forty-five degrees, into the main chamher, the stalagmite has formed the appearance of cascadesof pure alabaster, waves of which seem to be rushing outat the bottom, to pour themselves into the stagnant lake
. The Saturday magazine . anged unsubdued by man before the period of thedeluge. Of these, Forsters Hohle Professor Buckland states tobe the most remarkable he had ever seen, for the beauty ofits roof and the perfection of its stalagmite*. Its heightvaries from ten to thirty feet, and its greatest width is aboutten yards ; in the side vaults, or recesses, which descend, atan angle of about forty-five degrees, into the main chamher, the stalagmite has formed the appearance of cascadesof pure alabaster, waves of which seem to be rushing outat the bottom, to pour themselves into the stagnant lake ofthe same substaVice, which forms the floor ; the rocky roofhas been corroded into deep cavities, separated by partitionsof every conceivable form and thinness, giving it the ap-pearance of a richly-fretted Gothic roof of a chapel, withpendent corbels, while beautiful stalactites, depending fromthese projections and reaching almost down to the tloor,contribute by their delicacy to give additional richness tothis Section of the Germv Cavern of Another of these caves is called Zahnloch, or the Holeof Teeth, from the abundance of fossil teeth that havebeen taken from it. This is situated on the side of a hill,at a considerable height; and, its entrance being visibleiVom a distance, it has been known from a very early principal cham])er is sixty feet in length, and fromtwenty to forty in breadth, but so low, that there are fewplaces in which a person can stand upright. On one sidethere is a second cavern, much loftier; in the middle ofwhich is a large insulated block of stone, polished over itssurface, as is conjectured, by the gambols of the bears whichinhabited the cave ; this animal being accustomed to climbup any thing in its place of abode, as may be noticed ofthose in the Zoological Gardens. The next of these German caverns we shall notice is thatof Gailenreuth, which is the most remarkable of allfor the quantity and high state of preservat
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