10 INSTANCES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTS 



In Sicily a Kaised Beach is represented in the 

 neighbourhood of Palermo by a shell-bed at the 

 bottom of the Cave of San Ciro, but the overlying 

 beds have been so disturbed and broken up that the 

 exact relations of these to one another cannot now be 

 made out. In front of this Cave, and probably going 

 some way in it, a "Head" is represented by that 

 extraordinary mass of ossiferous breccia which in 

 places skirts some of the hills (p. 50). At Malta 

 the Kaised Beach has not been noticed, though there 

 is no doubt that the Island was, like the Channel 

 Islands, isolated at the time of the submergence 

 which has left a well-defined ossiferous breccia on 

 its south coast (p. 53). 



Greece is largely covered by a thick mass of breccia, 

 the equivalent both of the Kubble-on-slopes and of 

 the " Head," and, though a Kaised Beach is only re- 

 corded under it at one place, the lines of Pholas- 

 borings in the cliffs afford equivalent evidence of a 

 change of level, while in the Island of Cerigo there 

 are well-marked ossiferous fissures (p. 56). In Crete 

 the Drift beds present very similar features, with the 

 addition of a well-characterised Kaised Beach (p. 56). 



On the opposite coast of North Africa, the pheno- 

 mena are identical with those we have traced on the 

 north side of the Western Mediterranean. Raised 

 Beaches are extremely well marked, but the only 

 place where from general description I would re- 

 cognise a " Head " is at Arzen, near Oran. There is 

 no mention of this form of Drift eastward of Tripoli 

 or in Egypt (p. 62). 



