VARIETIES OF THE SCAGLIA. 167 



which are drilled and excavated with those 

 curious perforations and cavities so often seen 

 on the exposed parts of limestone rocks, and 

 referred by some, we think erroneously, to the 

 action of marine animals on a coast line. 



In the eastern part of Lycia this limestone is 

 often veined, and traversed by flinty or cherty 

 layers and concretions. In Milyas, and in the 

 district of Karditch, the scaglia degenerates into 

 a soft chalky limestone ; in some places closely 

 resembling chalk, in others scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished mineralogically from the fresh-water 

 tertiary marl. Near Lake Caralitis the harder 

 and softer beds of the scaglia are inter-stratified. 



The stratification of the scaglia is in some 

 places very distinct, in others very obscure. The 

 strata dip in every possible direction, and at all 

 angles. Generally speaking, however, the dip of 

 the beds is from the axis of the mountain chains, 

 or rather platforms. Thus, at the Pamphylian side 

 of the mountains the dip is usually eastwards ; 

 at the Carian, westwards. In places the strata 

 are much contorted ; and in the more disturbed 

 portions of Mount Cragus, among the Seven Capes, 

 the contortions of beds are such as to rival in com- 

 plexity any we have ever seen in palaeozoic slates. 



