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  APPENDIX. It. shells of Bermuda, described by Captain Vetch o, which.pass adua!!y into a compact lime-stone, differ only in colour 'from the Guadeloupe stone; and agree with it, and with the calcareous breocia 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 thit rock. A calcareous compound, apparendy of the same kind, has been recently mentioned, as of daily pro- duetlon in Anastasia Island, on the coast of East Florida :t; nd 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-esst of the Medi- terranean�ccords with M. Peron's description of the pro- gross from the loose and moveable sands of the dunas to solid masses of rock Jl. In the idarid of Rhodes, also, there are hills of pudding-stone, of the same character, consider* ably elevated above the sea. And Captain W. H. Smyth,  Kmnig. Phil. Trans. 1814. p. 107, c.
 * Geol. Trans. 2d. Series, vol. i. p. 172.
 *  Bulletin des Sciences Nat. Mars, 1825.

�aufort's "Description of the South Coast of Asia Minorf c. Second edition. London, 1818: pp. 180--184, c. In the neigh* bourhod of Adl_i_a, the depeaition of catcam matter from the water, is so copious, that an old water-course lind actually ' crept upward8 to a height of n.ly three feet'; and the rapidity of the deposition wu such, that some specimem were collected on the gus, where the stony crust was already formed, although the vet* dum of the leaf was as yet but imperfectly witbemd (p. i14): a fact, which renders less extraordinary M. Pron'8 statement, that the excrements of kangar(Mi had been found concreted by ealca- reotm matter.--Pron, vol. ii. p. 116. ! Voye ii. 116. DiitizOcl D Google

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