SKETCH OF J^GINA AND M ETHAN A. 803 



that this line of subsidence must be extended farther north to 

 Methana. We find, as already noted, the same gray Cretaceous 

 limestone as in ./Egina, at Mt. Panagia and at the southern end 

 near the isthmus. The junction of this with the eruptive rock 

 in the former place is quite sharp though obscured by talus, but 

 I could find no traces of the metamorphic action of the lava on 

 the limestone which Fiedler describes. The junction on the 

 south is covered by a broad, shallow alluvial valley devoted to 

 cultivation. 



The rest of Methana is entirely composed of eruptive material, 

 and, while apparently simpler and not divisible into districts, is 

 less clean cut and well defined in its orographical features than 

 is the case on ^Egina. The highest point is the summit of Mt. 

 Chelona (760.7 m.) in the centre, which, however, hardly over- 

 tops several of the surrounding peaks. The summit is formed 

 of a ridge of huge angular fragments of rock running east and 

 west. This rock is a hypersthene-andesite, dark gray in color, 

 and very compact and fine grained, though several fragments 

 show a coarse scoriaceous structure, which was probably the 

 reason why the English officers labeled the peak " extinct volcano " 

 on the chart. The same rock is found at Methone and at Megalo 

 Chorio, and, though the stratigraphical relations were difficult 

 to make out in the short time at my disposal, this mass of rock 

 seems to be older than the surrounding masses of dacite. 



On the south, Mt. Chelona is separated from the mountain 

 above Vromo by a broad valley which runs down to the 

 small Vathy (Deep) Harbor on the west coast. The top- 

 most ridge, just spoken of, forms the southern boundary of 

 a small plain in which are the remains of a "bee-hive" tomb 

 similar to those at Mycenae and elsewhere. This plain slopes 

 down to a long valley on the north which separates Mt. 

 Chelona from several peaks almost as high as itself, on one 

 of which are the ruins of an old castle and town as at Palaeo- 

 chora on ^Egina, and also bearing the same name. To the east 

 lie several peaks, and in passing from the summit down to 

 Kosona on the east coast one crosses a level plain of some size and 



