. History and uses of limestones and marbles;. an. The southern side of theAtlas Mountains consists of limestones and sandstones, with agreat variety of fossils ; some of the rocks are analogous tothe macigno and alberese of Italy. The limestones of Tunis and Fezzan are destitute of fossils;those comprising the hills of Tripoli include a great varietywith dolomites. Near the ruins of Carthage, one of the mostcelebrated cities of antiquity, occurs a conglomerate of sand-stone and limestone, which may have been employed in itsconstruction. Of this city, which filled so large a place inhistory, n
. History and uses of limestones and marbles;. an. The southern side of theAtlas Mountains consists of limestones and sandstones, with agreat variety of fossils ; some of the rocks are analogous tothe macigno and alberese of Italy. The limestones of Tunis and Fezzan are destitute of fossils;those comprising the hills of Tripoli include a great varietywith dolomites. Near the ruins of Carthage, one of the mostcelebrated cities of antiquity, occurs a conglomerate of sand-stone and limestone, which may have been employed in itsconstruction. Of this city, which filled so large a place inhistory, nothing remains except some of its cisterns and anaqueduct, though we are told that it contained many magnifi-cent buildings. The limestone of Red Hill, in West Africa, encloses frag-ments of scoriae, which has associated it with igneousagency ; a variety, forming cliffs east of the mouth of theCongo, or Livingston River, is filled with the Ostrea, whileJurassic strata, with Ammonites, are developed on the eastcoast of the Continent. Plate Brbcoa Villa Adriana.
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