PALAEOZOIC ROCKS OF ARARAT. 209 



Very recently the existence of rocks of Pa- 

 laeozoic age in the neighbourhood of Mount 

 Ararat has been made known. M. de Verneuil 

 has announced to the Geological Society of 

 France, that Professor Abich of Dorpat, com- 

 missioned by the Emperor of Russia to investi- 

 gate the geology of the trans-caucasian countries, 

 has discovered on the northern flanks of the 

 great Ararat, in the valley of Aras, ancient lime- 

 stones containing such fossils as Spirifer speciosus 

 and ostiolatus, Cateni'pora eschar oides, and species 

 of Orthis, Lingida, and Favosites. This discovery 

 will probably afford a key to the history of the 

 older rocks of Asia Minor, and we may now look 

 forward to the eventual and not far distant con- 

 struction of a complete geological map of that 

 classic and interesting region. 



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