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conformable with the scaglia. Phaselis itself is 

 built upon a raised platform of conglomerate, 

 capping a hill of wacke. To the east of Phaselis, 

 between Tekrova and the mountain pass through 

 which the army of Alexander made its way into 

 Pamphylia, are some remarkable hills of trap 

 and greenstone, forming a circle round a flat 

 plain, in the midst of which tower two great 

 black rocks of trap, the conspicuous appearance 

 of which from the sea is noticed by Captain 

 Beaufort in his work on Karamania. The whole 

 of this country around Mount Solyma deserves 

 a careful exploration and study. 



Trap-rocks of later date than the serpentines 

 are met with in other parts of Lycia besides the 

 country just described, and usually take the form 

 of an amygdaloid, bearing a most striking resem- 

 blance to the amygdaloid of the south-east of 

 Scotland, At the eastern extremity of the plain 

 of Phineka, among the ruins of Gagse, this rock 

 breaks up through the limestones and shales, 

 causing much disturbance ; and on the road from 

 thence to Olympus, we passed over a dike of 

 amygdaloid, containing fragments of both lime- 

 stone and serpentine, the rocks through which 

 it penetrated. This is also the case at Saharajik, 



