The chain of the Hartz also presents some other caves of less celebrity, although of the same nature mentioned by Behrens in his Hercynia curiosa, namely, The cave of _Hartzburg_, under the castle of the same name, above _Goslar_ to the south. We do not know why Büsching disputes its existence. It is true that Behrens cites J. D. Horstius erroneously, for having seen bones of various animals taken from it; for Horstius speaks only (_Obs. Anat. dec._ p. 10.) of the cave of _Scharzfels_. The cave of _Ufftrungen_, in the county of _Stollberg_, to the south of the castle of that name. It is named in the country _Heim-knohle_, or _Hiding-hole_. Behrens thinks that fossil bones might be found in it. Another cave of the same neighbourhood, is named _Diebsloch, Thieves’ Hole_. Skulls have been found in it, which were supposed to be human. We shall not speak here of those caves of the Hartz in which bones have not been discovered. And even those in which they have been found, are, at the present day, almost exhausted, it being only by breaking the stalactite that any can be obtained, so much of them had been taken away for selling as medicines. The caves of _Hungary_ come after those of the Hartz, with reference to the remoteness of the time at which they have been known. The first notice of them is due to _Paterson Hayn_, (Ephem. Nat. Cur. 1672, Obs. cxxxix. and cxciv.) _Bruckmann_, a physician of _Wolfenbüttel_, afterwards described them at length. (_Epistola Itineraria_, 77, and _Breslauer Sammlung_, 1725, First Trim. p. 628.) They are situated in the county of _Liptow_, on the southern declivities of the _Carpathian mountains_. They are known in the country by the name of _Dragons’ Caves_, because the people of the neighbourhood attribute to those animals the bones which occur in them, and with which they have been acquainted from time immemorial; but all those which have been figured by authors belong to the Bear family, and to the species which is named the _Great Cave Bear_ (_Grand Ours des cavernes_).