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shells of Bermuda, described by Captain Vetch *, which pass 
gradually into a compact lime-stone, differ only in colour 
from the Guadaloupe stone; and agree with it, and with 
the calcareous breccia of Dirk Hartog’s Island, in the 
gradual melting down of the cement into the included 
portions, which is one of the most remarkable features of 
that rockf. A calcareous compound, apparently of the 
same kind, has been recently mentioned, as of daily pro- 
duction in Anastasia Island, on the coast of East Florida J ; 
and will probably be found to be of very general oc- 
currence in that quarter of the globe. And Captain Beau- 
fort’s account of the process by which the gravelly beach 
is cemented into stone, at Selinti, and several other places on 
the coast of Karamania, on the north-east of the Medi- 
terranean §, accords with M. Peron’s description of the pro- 
gress from the loose and moveable sands of the dunes to 
solid masses of rock |1. In the island of Rhodes, also, there 
are hills of pudding-stone, of the same character, consider- 
ably elevated above the sea. And Captain W. H. Smyth, 
* Geol. Trans. 2d. Series, vol. i. p. 172. 
t Koenig. Phil. Trans. 1814. p. 107, &c, 
% Bulletin des Sciences Nat. Mars, 1825. 
§ Beaufort’s “ Description of the South Coast of Asia Minor,” &c. 
Second edition. London, 1818: pp. 180 — 184, &c. In the neigh- 
bourhood of Adalia, the deposition of calcareous matter from the 
water, is so copious, that an old water-course had actually ‘ crept 
upwards to a height of nearly three feet ’ ; and the rapidity of the 
deposition was such, that some specimens were collected on the 
grass, where the stony crust was already formed, although the ver- 
dure of the leaf was as yet but imperfectly withered (p. 114): a 
fact, which renders less extraordinary M. Peron’s statement, that 
the excrements of kangaroos had been found concreted by calca- 
reous matter. — Peron, vol. ii. p. 116. 
H Voyage ii. 116. 
