174 MARINE TERTI ARIES AT ARMOOTLEE. 



brecciated scaglia, are a few highly inclined beds 

 of white and grey marl of small extent, but 

 containing marine fossils, of the same species 

 with many of those found at Saaret, the more 

 littoral forms being absent. An exploration of 

 the country between Saaret and Gendever would 

 probably shew a connection between the beds. 



At Armootlee, on the southern extremity of 

 the plain of Almalee, six thousand feet above 

 the sea-level, are beds of hard grey shale abound- 

 ing in fragments of marine shells. The presence 

 of determinable portions of two or three species 

 leads us to refer these beds to the same forma- 

 tion with those of Saaret and Gendever. The 

 Armootlee shales extend into the ravines through 

 which there is a pass to the valley of Kassabar, 

 opening out near Gendever, a circumstance which 

 favours the notion of their connection. 



On descending into the valley of the Xanthus 

 from Arsa, an ancient site which we discovered 

 above the ravine through which the Mangertchy 

 flows, we passed over a narrow strip of marine 

 tertiary, resting upon the sides of Mount Mas- 

 sicytus, at an elevation of between two and three 

 thousand feet above the sea. The beds, as far 

 as could be made out, were inclined at a high 



