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4. Limestone resembling No. 1 in colour and general appearance, 

 but not so hard. This bed is about eight or ten feet thick, and con- 

 tains numerous Pectens of a very large size. 



5. Bed of Lobularia arborea, about two feet thick, the stems and 

 branches of which are not in the least broken or displaced. Im- 

 bedded in them are a few large Pectens and Oysters. 



6. Various beds of yellow limestone, sand and marl, with many 

 shells of Pecten, Ostrea, Cardium, Cardita^ Terehratula^ Pectuncu- 

 lusy and casts of various other bivalves. The Terebratulae only oc- 

 cur in the very lowest portion of this bed. The whole thickness of 

 these beds may be about fifty feet. They form a hill of consider- 

 able height, with an abrupt escarpment on the west, and sloping to 

 the east at an angle of about 45°. A church and the road to Lix- 

 ouri are at its eastern base, and the road from the quarries to the 

 sea passes to the north. The view from the summit is highly pic- 

 turesque, and exhibits the structure of the country in a remarkable 

 manner. The alternations of hard and soft strata in this tertiary 

 deposit have produced a series of low parallel hills running north 

 and south, each presenting a steep escarpment on the west, while 

 they slope to the east at an angle equal to the dip of the strata, 

 varying from 45° to 55°. 



7. A deposit of blue marl or clay between 200 and 300 feetj;thick, 

 containing numerous shells, chiefly of the genera Puccinum, Pusus, 

 Turritella, Ceritkium, Dentalium and Pectunculus, This bed is well 

 displayed in the broken ground on the south-west and west of the 

 last-mentioned hill. 



8. Limestone or calcareous marl, a few feet thick, containing 

 Pecten varius and Caryophyllia. 



9. Alternating blue and white marls, apparently without fossils, 

 cracking into cubical and rhomboidal fragments at right angles to 

 the stratification. The thickness of these beds is about 100 feet, and 

 they are exposed in a hill on the north of the road to the quarries. 



10. Hard yellow marly sandstone without fossils, breaking into 

 irregular fragments. It is exposed in the rivulet on the south of 

 the road. 



11. Blue and white marl. 



12. Gypsum, varying from ten to fifty feet thick, composed of 

 an aggregation of large selenitic crystals. Their weathered sur- 

 faces have a curious appearance, resembling the crystallization seen 

 on windows during a hard frost, and are partly finely laminated, 

 varying in colour from clear white to grey. In one place the gyp- 

 sum rises to a high ridge, on the edge of which the village of Vli- 

 cata is situated, and is here of considerable thickness. 



13. Yellow or white marly sandstone, containing rarely shells 

 of Pecten, Ostrea and Terebratula. 



14. Bands of thin-bedded red and grey limestone, very hard, con- 

 taining no fossils. 



15. Blue clay about twenty feet thick, also without organic remains. 



16. Gypsum resembling No. 12, and equally devoid of fossils. 



