Cyprus a Short Account of Its History And Present State
Cyprus a Short Account of Its History And Present State
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The Messaria Plain consists of a white, chalky marl of middle tertiary age, which formation also covers a very large portion of the island, and is very productive, and is evidently connected with the white, chalky limestone which forms so large a portion of the mountains throughout the island, such as those which lie between Peripedia and the sea, and as later on we shall see, between Larnaca and Stavrovouni. To those who want more information on the subject I can- not do better than refer them... to the Handbook of Cyprus (1907), compiled by Sir J. T. Hutchinson, M. A. , Chief Justice of Ceylon, and C. Delaval Cobham, C. M. G. , Commissioner of Larnaca, published by Stanford, and also to Chapter IX. Of Captain Savile's book on Cyprus, and, indeed, the general conclusions therein arrived at are so interesting that I make no apology for quoting them in extenso : "Accepting for the present Gaudry's assertion that the compact limestones are of the secondary, or cretaceous epoch, and putting aside the doubt as to whether the pseudo-plu tonic rocks may possibly be older formations which have undergone a process of metamorphism, then, although the absence of fossils in this limestone prevents its exact age from being known with certainty, we may consider it to be the oldest formation in the island ; and from its fine grain and homogeneous 30 COLONEL A.
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The Messaria Plain consists of a white, chalky marl of middle tertiary age, which formation also covers a very large portion of the island, and is very productive, and is evidently connected with the white, chalky limestone which forms so large a portion of the mountains throughout the island, such as those which lie between Peripedia and the sea, and as later on we shall see, between Larnaca and Stavrovouni. To those who want more information on the subject I can- not do better than refer them... to the Handbook of Cyprus (1907), compiled by Sir J. T. Hutchinson, M. A. , Chief Justice of Ceylon, and C. Delaval Cobham, C. M. G. , Commissioner of Larnaca, published by Stanford, and also to Chapter IX. Of Captain Savile's book on Cyprus, and, indeed, the general conclusions therein arrived at are so interesting that I make no apology for quoting them in extenso : "Accepting for the present Gaudry's assertion that the compact limestones are of the secondary, or cretaceous epoch, and putting aside the doubt as to whether the pseudo-plu tonic rocks may possibly be older formations which have undergone a process of metamorphism, then, although the absence of fossils in this limestone prevents its exact age from being known with certainty, we may consider it to be the oldest formation in the island ; and from its fine grain and homogeneous 30 COLONEL A.
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