THE CONE-DWELLERS OF ASIA MINOR 



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OFTEN THE COXES ARE NEARLY PERFECT IN SHAPE, BUT IN PEACES WHERE 



STRATIFICATION DISTURBED AND RESISTED THE EROSIVE PROCESSES 



THEY ARE SLENDER AND ASSUME THE GENERAL OUTLINES 



OF THE COLUMN OR OBELISK 



But the obelisks have cone or sugar-loaf caps, or at all events they did have them origi- 

 nally. Here the caps are very large. The picture shows a stratified formation, which runs 

 horizontally through all the obelisks ; consequently in past ages, before erosion set in, all of 

 these obelisks were united in one solid mass of pumice-stone. Here the huge caps are of 

 harder material than that of which the underlying mass consists. 



tain that the primitive Troglodytes lived 

 in just such dwellings ; but for all that, 

 these people are not primitive at heart, 

 for they have made no attempt to secure 



isolation. The element of fear of man- 

 kind is not present — that is, no kind of 

 dead-line has been drawn against hostile 

 neighbors. 



