BAUMANS HÖHLE, a celebrated series of natural caverns, described and figured by Leibnitz in his Protogaea. They obtained this name from an unfortunate miner who, in 1670, ventured to explore the cave, and being there lost for three days and nights, died of exhaustion soon after escaping from its recesses. The cave is in a bed of limestone of transition, about two miles from the town of Elbingrade, and 18 from Goslar. The entrance is 15 feet wide, and 5 feet high; and leads by a rapid descent to a grand chamber, between 40 and 50 feet in diameter, and from 10 to 20 feet in height. From the roof depend stalactites; and the floors of the cavern have been all covered with stalagmite, much broken up in the search for the fossil bones that abound there. The bones, like those in other German caves, are those of the fossil elephant, rhinoceros, bear, hyena, &c., imbedded in mud and sand mixed with water-worn pebbles. This detritus incloses the antediluvian bones, but the human bones found in this and other similar caves have evidently a more recent origin, being the remains of persons who have accidentally perished there. (Leibnitz, Protogaea; Buckland's Reliquiae Diluviana.)