IGNEOUS AGENCIES. 



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terminates the Starza is obviously an old shore-cliff. 

 3. The face of this cliff up to a line twenty feet above 



FIG. 86. Map of Bay of Baise. 



sea-level is riddled with holes bored by lithodomi, a spe- 

 cies of marine-boring shell. 4. On the Starza have been 

 found the remains of an ancient Eoman temple. When 

 found, only the upper parts of three fine columns were 

 visible, but, by removal of the soil twelve feet deep, a 

 beautiful tessellated 

 pavement and many 

 broken columns were 

 exposed. The pave- 

 ment and buried por- 

 tions of the columns 

 were smooth and well 

 preserved ; then fol- 

 lowed nine feet riddled with lithodomi, above which it was 

 again smooth. The uppermost borings were on the same 

 level as those on the cliff, and therefore mark the former 

 level of the sea. Inscriptions on the pavement show that the 

 temple was repaired in the third century, and it was then, 

 therefore, above sea-level. The limit of the borings shows 

 that it subsequently sank twenty-one feet, and again rose 

 slowly to the original level, for the floor is now above sea- 



FIG. 87. Section of map of Bay of Baiae. 



