168 FOSSILS OF THE SCAGLIA. 



Fossils are extremely scarce in the Lycian 

 scaglia. Near Cydna, at the entrance of the 

 Xanthian plain, nummulites occur not uncom- 

 monly. We met with them also at Cyange, near 

 Gendever ; and at Armootlee, on the plain of 

 Almalee. At the last-named place Pectens ac- 

 companied them ; and, in the brecciated scaglia 

 of the acropolis rock of Gendever, were some 

 fine corals of the genus Astrgea. At Cyanse they 

 are accompanied by hippurites. In the soft 

 chalky limestone of Milyas a Pecten occurred, 

 apparently identical with that at Almali. Un- 

 fortunately, ( it happened that the localities at 

 which we found these indications of organic 

 remains were all places where circumstances 

 did not permit of a stay, and more careful 

 search. 



Bordering the valley of the Xanthus, the 

 valleys towards Phaselis, and the alpine plains or 

 yailahs, are strata of greenish sandstone and shale, 

 sometimes of considerable thickness, and appa- 

 rently conformable with the scaglia upon which 

 they lie. They resemble the " macigno" of Italy. 

 Traces of vegetable impressions, and fucoidal 

 markings, are the only evidences they afford of 

 the presence of organic remains. We have left 



