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the extent of several feet. The two piers of the port 

 of Phalasarna, a city of late Hellenic date, described 

 by Strabo, are now twenty- two feet above their 

 original level. 1 There are immense accumulations of 

 angular detritus in the interior of the island, rising 

 on the slopes up to the heights of 800 to 900 feet, 

 and in one place, there is a calcareous breccia over- 

 lying a liaised Beach similar to those on the coast 

 of the English Channel. 2 The surface is also largely 

 covered with a red earth as in Greece. 



Asia Minor. There are traces of a Raised Beach 

 in the Troad, but as it contains fragments of potter} 7 ", 

 and exact particulars are wanting, it is probably of 

 recent date. Elsewhere, the limestone cliffs are drilled 

 \yyPholades at a height of thirty- two feet above the sea 

 level. There are also local detrital deposits derived 

 from the neighbouring hills extending round the plain 

 of Smyrna, some of which, M. Tchihatcheff says, may 

 be of the same age as the Cave deposits. He adds that 

 Quaternary deposits are much less common than in 

 Europe. 3 



Cyprus. There are remnants of a Raised Beach 

 varying in height from three' to thirty feet above the 

 sea level round this island, with traces of Loess and a 

 Eubble-drift, though in such small quantities as not 

 to suggest any deep submergence, and this opinion is 



v J Admiral Spratt, Travels and Researches in Crete, 1S65. 



2 Victor Raulin, Description physique de Vile de Crete, partie 

 Geologique, pp. 616-656, 1861. 



8 Asie Mineure, ' Part 4, Geologie,' vol. iii., pp. 382-524, 1869. 



