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split along the line of bedding. It is extensively quarried for 
building and other purposes, being easily cut with the knife or 
saw. Large blocks of it are turned into: pillars, vases, balus- 
trades, and other architectural ornaments. This stone is exten- 
sively used for building in the islands ; and, for the same use, 
is largely exported to many parts along the shores of the Medi- 
terranean. It attains a thickness of from 40 to 50 feet. 
_ ©The stone from which the finely-carved vases are cut, comes 
from the lower part of this bed, and is obtained near Naxiar. 
The rock in this locality dries whiter, is finer grained, and more 
compact than in general.”—Spratt. 
“Tt is impossible to distinguish between the beds D, E, F, 
in the above grouping, except in cliff-sections.”—Earl Ducie. 
Fossils of No. 4. 
REPTILIA. CIRRHIPODA. 
Chelonia, sp. Balauus stellaris. 
Lepas, sp. 
FIsHEs. CRUSTACEA, 
Pyenodus, numerous teeth of this Numerous remains of this class. 
genus, with vertebre and other 
bones of this class. Shas boca 
Schizaster Parkinsonii, Defrance. 
Mouuvusca. — Desori, Wright. 
Nautilus, sp. undescribed. Spatangus Hoffmanni, Goldf. 
Scalaria Duciei. Seutella subrotunda, Leske. 
Conus, Cyprea, Solarium, Natica, striatula, Marcel de Serres. 
Phorus, casts only. Brissopsis crescenticus, Wright. 
Pecten laticosta. ~ Hemiaster Grateloupi, Desor. 
— Burdigalensis. — Scille, Wright. 
Lucina. Tellina. Cotteaui, Wright. 
No. 5. The hard cherty limestone, “is a yelluwish-white 
cream-coloured limestone, having sometimes semi-crystalline 
strata alternating with an oolitic grit or sandstone, apparently 
composed of minute fragments of shells and corals. It attaims 
a considerable thickness, since nearly 400 feet of it in perpen- 
dicular depth is visible on thé north-west coast of Gozo.” 
(Spratt.) “This bed forms a high and rocky coast-line on the 
south end of Malta, and dipping to the north appears about the 
water-line in the neighbourhood of Valetta and Sliema, forming 
a barrier to the sea. Probably the softer superincumbent beds 
have in course of time been worn away, till the appearance of 
this rock arrested any further encroachment. A Scutella inva- 
riably marks the junction of this bed with No. 4.” (Earl Ducie.) 
The New Dock is built of this rock, and it is quarried in several 
places for building purposes, and it is likewise burned for lime. 
