. History and uses of limestones and marbles;. loveliness poets have celebrated, wassituated between these mountains, and through it flowed theRiver Peneus, making a channel for the waters of the plain. Besides its poetical renown, this region offers some geolog-ical features of great interest. The ancient inhabitants be-lieved that the plain of Thessaly formed a vast lake, until apassage was made through the rocks by some terraqueousconvulsion, when the lake became dry land; and this traditionwas probably founded on fact, though the cause might havebeen, in part, the erosive power of water. T
. History and uses of limestones and marbles;. loveliness poets have celebrated, wassituated between these mountains, and through it flowed theRiver Peneus, making a channel for the waters of the plain. Besides its poetical renown, this region offers some geolog-ical features of great interest. The ancient inhabitants be-lieved that the plain of Thessaly formed a vast lake, until apassage was made through the rocks by some terraqueousconvulsion, when the lake became dry land; and this traditionwas probably founded on fact, though the cause might havebeen, in part, the erosive power of water. The Deluge ofDeucalion is easily explained by supposing the outlets of thelake to have been obstructed by deposits. Devonian limestones are found on the Bosporus, but theescarpments of this strait and of the Isles of Cyamus — blueislands—the movable Planctae and Symplegades of mythol-ogy— are composed of breccias. The beautiful harbor ofthe Golden Horn is cut through the Tertiary formation atits junction with ancient schists. Plate Pavonazzhtto.
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