Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

174 PETRIFIED BEACH.

The other river winds round a lofty and
romantic headland, called Selinty.

The shore bounding this plain was
once a gravel beach; but from the up-
per part of the slope to some distance
into the sea, it is now a solid crust of
pudding stone, from one to two feet in
thickness. This petrified beach is not
peculiar to the plain of Selinty: many
instances of it on a smaller scale had
been already observed on the coasts of
Asia Minor, and a few in some parts of
Greece ; and I have been informed that
an example of it also occurs in Sicily.
Being generally covered with loose sand
and pebbles, it presents to the eye no ex-
traordinary appearance; but the unwary
boat that should mistake it for a common
beach of yielding materials, and should
run upon it before a following surf, might
be fatally apprized of its error. The spe-
cimens from various places that I have
examined, differ but little from each
other; gravel predominates in some,