THE SOUTH-WESTERN COAST OF THE CRIMEA.

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blueifh-grey calcareous rock, füll of large madreporites, to-gether with traces of very fmall cochlites or petrified fhells.Thefe decompofed foffils are found at the perpendicular height ofalmoft one hundred fathoms above the level of the fea, exterklingto the foot of the rocky bank; which here appears to be nearlyof a fimilar elevation, and forms part of the Babugan Yaila,under the name of Magarafh. Large blocks of bafaltic fparwere alfo difengaged from this eminence, between the ftonesof which flouriihed the Ornithopus fcorpioides. In the gardensof Beeyouk-Lambat, I noticed fine olive-trees, and fome 'tolerably large ftems of the Crataegus orientalis or Medlar-tree,which had apparently been engrafted.

From Kutfhuk-Lambat, we were again obliged to quit thefhore, on account of two prominences extending into the fea;and one of which is called Bootanee-Kayafle. The firftconfifts of a grey limeftone rock, and has probably been pre-cipitated from the rocky alpine terrace, fo as to produce clifFsin the fea: one of thefe is called Dafhkema, from its re-femblance to a fhip. The fecond cape is compofed of waccarefembling trap, to which is attached a black trap-like fchiftus.—Immediately after follows the mouth of the rivulet Lambat,near which lie fcattered, or rolled down toward the fea, anumber of large and fmall blocks of a peculiar alpine wacca,fimilar to granitell; but which properly confifts of a combina-tion of quartz, white calcareous fpar, and black horn-blende,or Talcum corneum ; the laft forming a fine admixture of nearlyequal parts ; and the whole pofTeffing a confiderable degree ofhardnefs. A fimilar foffil alfo occurs near mount Ayoudagh.—Through a paflage, which this ftream has made between

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