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8. Meleke—the Royal stone, found in the Haram and in 
the great quarries. 
4, Misse (Jehudi=hard.) 
5. Misse (Helu=soft sweet.) 
6. Misse (Achmar—red pink.) 
I had not the opportunity of seeing the Nubian sandstone, 
in siti, owing to the extreme heat, which prevented my 
going to the Dead Sea, as I only saw it ata distance, I have 
extracted from M. Lartet’s book some of his remarks thereon. 
NUBIAN SANDSTONE 
Lartet “ Eysai sur la Geologia de Palestine,” p. 127. 
The sandstone first appears near Wady Ghuweir, where it 
has a red colour, with a weak dip towards the south. Between 
Wady Ghuweir and Wady Munshallah is seen whitish sand- 
stone overlying reddish shales, of which we are about to speak. 
These sandstones follow uninterruptedly from there to the 
- Wady Zerka Main, with a continually increasing thickness 
that attains more than 330 feet. The Wadies Hamara, Meredjeb 
Hanr el Hamma, have all their openings cut in these rocks, 
which in the Wady el Hamma present the following succession 
in passing from bottom to top :— 
1st. Red Sandstone. 
2nd. Greenish do. 
3rd. Red Sandstone and Greenish Shales. 
Zerka Main appears to run in a small Fault in the midst of 
these sandstones. 
From the Wady to the Plain of Zara these (beds) loose 
their horizontality and dip towards the south. The cliff 
presents at this point the following succession of arenaceous 
deposits. 
At the base white sandstones to which succeed alternations 
of sandstones and mottled shales of red and green, separated in 
little layers by very thin beds of clay. Then come red sands, 
after that white sandstones, covered by the débris of Basalt, 
which has descended from the flow of which the hill is 
capped. 
