XL.—On the Geology of part of Asia Minor, between the Salt Lake of Kodj-hissar and Cæsarea of Cappadocia; including a brief Description of Mount Argæus.

Abstract

PLATE XLVIII. Introduction. In several papers communicated to this Society, Mr. Strickland has described the geology of some of the portions of Asia Minor, through which we travelled together in the early part of 1836. When circumstances compelled that gentleman to return to England, I determined, notwithstanding the greatly diminished interest of solitary travelling, to remain in Asia Minor, and to endeavour to work out some of the principal objects which we had in view, when we quitted England. Two of the most important of these objects, —a minute examination of the geology of the Catacecaumene, and the ascent of Mount Argaeus, besides others of similar interest, I accomplished during the summer of 1837. I propose, therefore, in the following remarks, to give an account of the most eastern part of Asia Minor, which I then visited, and of Mount Argaeus, the summit of which had never been reached by any European traveller; but I much regret, that my observations were not nearly so perfect as they would have been with the assistance of Mr. Strickland, whose knowledge of various branches of Natural History had been of the greatest use during our previous journeys. In offering to the Society, the following account of the geology of that part of Cappadocia, which extends from the great Salt Lake of Kodj-hissar, eastwards as far as Caesarea and Mount Argaeus, I prefer describing the phenomena in the order in which they came under my observation, to giving a general notice of the geology