182 IGNEOUS ROCKS OF SOLYMA. 



deprived of all its terrors. It is still, however, 

 visited as a lion by both Greeks and Turks, 

 who make use of its classic flames to cook ka- 

 bobs for their dinners. 



The country around Taktalu, the ancient Mount 

 Solyma, a peak of scaglia, rising- seven thousand 

 feet above the sea, is much disturbed by igneous 

 rocks, apparently of different ages. Near Phaselis 

 are hills of serpentine resembling those at the 

 Yanar-dagh. A little farther up the country, at 

 the western base of Mount Solyma, the igneous 

 rocks appear to be of more recent origin, and are 

 mostly greenstone, which is in places porphyritic 

 and contains included fragments of the limestone, 

 through which it bursts. The trap here bears 



«, beds of shale included in trap, and cupped by (b) conglomerates. 



up masses of a conglomerate containing pebbles 

 of serpentine and limestone, and in places of a 

 more ancient conglomerate, in which the serpen- 

 tine is not present. This last appears to be a 

 member of the sandstones and shales which are 



