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sist. The lowest portion is composed of fine-grained white lime- 

 stones, which, from their resemblance to the rocks of Malta, are 

 probably referable to the Miocene age. Unfortunately our time 

 was too short to examine this part of the series thoroughly, but it is 

 possible that a transition may here be traced from the Miocene to 

 the Pliocene series. 



The accompanying section will show, in descending order, the 

 superposition of these beds. It was made about two miles to the 

 north of Lixouri, where a road descends from the quarries of Schoeno 

 to the sea. 



Village of Section about two miles N. of Lixouri. 



Schceno or Quarries. 

 Vlicata. 17 



16 15 14 13 



No. I. Very hard thin-bedded limestone of a reddish brown co- 

 lour, containing casts of recent species of shells, chiefly Turritella 

 and Pecten of small size. This bed dips at an angle of 50° towards 

 the east, and at some points rises to a considerable height, with a 

 steep westerly escarpment. The thickness of the bed is from ten to 

 twenty feet. About three-quarters of a mile north of Lixouri it 

 consists of a hard conglomerate, with small pebbles of flint and 

 quartz in a hard calcareous matrix. 



2. Dirty yellow sand, containing in the upper part many irregular 

 concretionary nodules of limestone, containing Pecten^ Ostrea and 

 Anomia. The calcareous concretions gradually diminish down- 

 wards, and the lower portion consists of fine sand full of shells, prin- 

 cipally Pecten^ Cerithium, Dentalium, Isocardia cor, Turritella, 

 Venus, &c. The thickness of this bed may be about 100 feet. It is 

 best seen in a small hill south of the road from the quarries to the sea. 



3. Blue marly clay, which in most places immediately underlies 

 the sands of the last stratum, but in some places a band of hard cal- 

 careous marl, consisting almost enflrely of shells, from three to five 

 feet thick, is interposed between the two. These shells appear to 

 belong almost entirely to the same species as occur in the blue clay 

 below. The latter deposit is about 200 feet thick, and contains a 

 great variety of shells, of the genera Dentalium, Fusus, Rostellaria, 

 Buccinum, Murex, Turritella, Cerithium, Cardium, Cardita, Venus, 

 &c. In a lower division of this blue clay Turritellae are most abun- 

 dant, scarcely any other shell being found with them, and in an upper 

 portion of the same bed a small oblong species of sponge is very 

 plentiful. 



All the above beds are exposed to the eastward of the road which 

 leads from Lixouri to the quarries of Schceno ; the following are to 

 the westward of the same road. 



