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from which they had fallen away, presented bare 

 and smooth surfaces of rock, scratched and fur- 

 rowed by the blocks borne down during the 

 slip. Nowhere in the Lycian Taurus could we 

 detect evidence of glacial action, all apparent 

 cases being referrible to the causes just men- 

 tioned. 



A study of the formations now in progress on 

 the coast of Lycia cannot fail, on account of the 

 variety of the former, and the depth of the 

 latter, to be instructive to the geologist. Care- 

 ful notes were made with this view in the gulf 

 of Macri, during the survey of that classic arm 

 of the sea — the Glaucus Sinus of the ancients — 

 by Mr. Hoskyn, acting under the orders of 

 Captain Graves. The sounding-lead and the 

 dredge were actively employed during more than 

 two months in this region. The results, so far 

 as geology is concerned, may be concisely stated 

 as follows : — 



The sides of the gulf are formed by steep 

 ridges of mountains and hills ; its central ter- 

 mination by a wide and alluvial pJain. The 

 deep and steep-sided ravines of the rocky lime- 

 stone mountains are prolonged into the sea. 

 Down these ravines, during the rainy season, 



