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Professor E. Hull l also mentions several Raised 

 Beaches, probably of Quaternary age, varying in 

 height from a little above the Mediterranean to an 

 altitude of 200 feet; and Canon Tristram 2 has noticed 

 some caves and detrital deposits. But none of these 

 writers notice any of that Loess or of those Ossiferous 

 fissures which constitute such marked features in the 

 submerged area of Europe. Are we then to consider 

 that at this Eastern end of the Mediterranean the 

 submergence was of less importance ? How far how- 

 ever it may have extended in a more north-easterly 

 direction, we are wanting in exact evidence to 

 decide. 



The Coast of North Africa. Here again we do 

 not know the inland extent of the submerged area. 

 On the coast we have clear evidence of the same 

 character as that on the northern coasts of the 

 Mediterranean. The whole of the north-western 

 coast was subject during the Quaternary period to 

 repeated elevatory movements, for traces of Eaised 

 Beaches of that age exist at various elevations from 

 5 feet to 600 feet, like those on the high Eock of 

 Gibraltar with which they were no doubt con- 

 temporaneous. It is rarely that the few shells found 

 in the higher beaches are described, but in one 

 instance we are informed that specimens of Pecten 

 opercularis, Pectunculus glycimeris, Cardium edule. 

 Venus gallica, Turbo rugosus, and Fusus corneus, 

 all common recent Mediterranean and Quaternary 



1 The Geology of Western Palestine. 



2 Tito Land of Israel 



