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RELATIONS OF THE CALCAREOUS AND VOLCANIC ROCKS.

have not been tilted from it, as a centre of elevation; and it is probable that these underlying calcareous beds may alternate with other volcanic ones, and abut up very much doser to the actual cone of Vulture; which thus seems to have simply broken through the stratified rocks, and, as my barometrical measurements show, at a very low comparative level.