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the garden of the Sultan’s brother-in-law, which contained rich 
deposits. 
About two hundred feet higher than this garden and nearer 
the Bosphorus we found another Turkish garden, where the 
underlying rock was broken up last year to the depth of four 
eet, and this proved to be a garden of trilobites. hile the 
work was going on we visited this place as often as the ugliness 
of the keeper could be mollified by a reasonable backsheesh, 
but the work was soon done, the vineyard planted, the melons 
growing and the trilobites buried. 
he Turkish cemetery in front of Robert College contains 
rocks which furnish many fossils, but they are poorly pre- 
served. At Arnaoutkuei there are old quarries, which furnis ed 
former explorers with most of their specimens an which are 
still full of fossils. No other deposits of any importance are 
known to exist on this side of the Bosphorus, though others 
may yet be found. At Kartal and Pendik, on the Sea of Mar- 
mora, the fossils are abundant and do not differ essentially 
tes are common, but of different genera from those found 
upon the hill above. From the latter we have specimens of 
hus, Ch 
haps others. From Baltaliman, we have a great variety of the 
Phacops, Conocephalus, Homalonotus, including three 
site side of the Bosphorus, we have found specimens of the 
Homalonotus of a size —several of the Piiasdonohas Ger- 
vilei, of which we have found no trace anywhere else. This 
men found in Normandy, and that it is doubtful whether the 
small fragment found by Abdullah Bey really belongs to this 
