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highly inclined. The calcareous schists, on which part of the 

 town of Lentini is built, are much fractured, and dip at an 

 angle of twenty-five degrees to the north-west. In some of the 

 valleys in the neighbourhood an anticlinal dip is seen, the beds 

 on one side being inclined to the north-west, and on the other 

 to the south-east. 



Throughout a considerable part of Sicily which I examined, 

 the dips of the tertiary strata were north-east and south-west ; 

 as, for example, in the district included between Terranuova, 

 Girgenti, Caltanisetta, and Piazza., where there are several 

 parallel lines, or ridges of elevation, which run north-west and 

 south-east. 



