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To the N.E. runs a line of exceptionally white cliffs, which terminate 

 in the treacherous reef of the Munshiar (saw); to the S. is a much 

 smaller point of softer and yellower rock running eastward, in the upper 

 strata (the harder white strata begin to dip), and followed to the S.E. by 

 a flatter bit of coast, guarded by a disused redoubt and tower. Thea 

 the deep indentations begin again, and continue until Delimara Point, 



T'TORBA FLOOR 

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Plan of Neolithic Remains at Xrobb-il-Ghagin on the East Coast of Malta, 



surveyed in May 1915. 



with its lighthouse, is reached. In the bay between the Munshiar 

 and the redoubt, about 150 feet above the sea, is the building which 

 forms the subject of the present paper. All the rock of this part of 

 the island is soft, and the indentations are continually becoming 

 deeper, while the cliffs are much undercut. A considerable portion of 

 the edifice has thus fallen into the sea, and the collapse of the rest 

 may not be very far distant, as it is deeply undermined. The existence 

 of the ruins was discovered by Mr. Carmelo Eizzo, P. A. A., who 

 1915. P 



