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highly inclined. The calcareous schists, on which part of the 
town of Lentini is built, are much fractured, and dip at an 
angle of twenty-five degrees to the north-west. In some of the 
valleys in the neighbourhood an anticlinal dip is seen, the beds 
on one side being inclined to the north-west, and on the other 
to the south-east. 
Throughout a considerable part of Sicily which I examined, 
the dips of the tertiary strata were north-east and south-west ; 
as, for example, in the district included between Terranuova, 
Girgenti, Caltanisetta, and Piazza, where there are several 
parallel lines, or ridges of elevation, which run north-west and 
south-east. 
