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the lower or carboniferous series much further than previous 
explorers, since they show an important carboniferous zone in 
the flanks of Mount Hor, and right into the Mountains of 
Moab. 
He adds—Professor Hull has gone the length of constitut- 
ing this into a separate formation, under the title of Desert 
Sandstone, along with the overlying limestone it forms a 
strip on the borders of the crystaline rocks, and is about 400 
feet in average thickness. 
Such are the observations of the eminent geologists I have 
quoted in reference to this wonderful formation, Nubian Sand- 
stone, thousands of feet thick in many places, as at Mount 
Hor, and very unfossilliferous with the Wady Nasb Limestone 
and Desert Sandstone of Hull sometimes traceable at its base 
in either case resting on the old crystaline or metamorphic 
rocks, the surfaces of which are observed to be level below the 
sandstones as shewn in Mr Bauerman’s section, with nothing 
intervening above between the Nubian Sandstone and the base 
of the cretaceous limestone, such is the case south of Mount 
Hermon, there, however, Neocomian or Jurassic Fossils are 
freely met with, and Mr Hudleston’s map shows a locality in 
this mountain or its flanks of one of such formations. 
I was prevented by indisposition from proceeding north- 
wards to Damascus, according to my programme, but one of my 
party obtained from the Arabs at the side of this mountain the 
fossils produced, which Mr Etheridge has kindly named, viz., 
Rhynchonellide Substrahidra and Quadriplicata, &c., being 
Jurassic and the Ammonites Luynesi, &c., Spines of Cidaris 
Glandaria-Cretaceous. 
I rode some 100 miles to Tiberias, which is a scattered old 
place in a volcanic district, and stayed some days at the Latin 
Convent there. To the north of it rise the basaltic hills of 
Safed, to the east the volcanic plateau of the Jaulan, to the 
west the Horns of Hattin,* (where the Crusaders made their last 
*Kurn Hattin 1178 feet high above the sea, from which streams of lava 
(Basaltic) have flowed to Tiberias. 
