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GEOLOGY OF FOUGES.
[Chap. iv.
blocks of stone and marble have been let into the walls
on the land side, but in general few remains of antiquity
were to be seen. Within the town I saw fragments of
columns, and outside the gate a large marble sarcophagus,
which appeared never to have been finished. The sur-
rounding hills are volcanic, consisting chiefly of indurated
trachytic tuff, with other igneous rocks occasionally pro-
truding through them. To the N.E. of the town, and near
what seemed to have been ancient quarries, I discovered a
mass of beautiful white kaolin in a soft and decomposed
state, capable, I should think, of being manufactured into
the finest porcelain. All the rocks in the neighbourhood
appeared to contain a very large proportion of felspar, from
which millstones have been cut.
On the 2nd of January, 1836, we sailed from Fouges, and
the following night, while passing through the Doro Passage
in a gale of wind with snow-squalls and rain from the N.E.,
we narrowly escaped being wrecked under Cape Colonna,
through the ignorance of our Maltese pilot; the wind then
headed us down the Gulf of Athens, and Captain Mundy
not choosing to trust his pilot any longer, bore away for
Cape S. Angclo, the S.E. extremity of the Morea, behind
which we found shelter in the Bay of Vathica, close to the
island of Servi. The gale increased during the day, and
as we scudded under close-reefed top-sails and courses,
we observed the rocky shores of the Morea covered with
snow to the water's edge, and were close to its iron-bound
coast as we passed round the point, with the wind from
the N.E. During our detention at Servi we found excel-
lent shooting on its barren shores; wild ducks, teal, wood-
cocks, and snipes abounded in the lowlands and pools, but
no inhabitants, though there are several traces of quarries
in the soft shelly rock, which forms an extensive low, level
plain near the sea-shore. We were five days beating up to
Athens, after which we visited Syra before we returned to
Smyrna.
We reached Smyrna on the 27th January, and found that
GEOLOGY OF FOUGES.
[Chap. iv.
blocks of stone and marble have been let into the walls
on the land side, but in general few remains of antiquity
were to be seen. Within the town I saw fragments of
columns, and outside the gate a large marble sarcophagus,
which appeared never to have been finished. The sur-
rounding hills are volcanic, consisting chiefly of indurated
trachytic tuff, with other igneous rocks occasionally pro-
truding through them. To the N.E. of the town, and near
what seemed to have been ancient quarries, I discovered a
mass of beautiful white kaolin in a soft and decomposed
state, capable, I should think, of being manufactured into
the finest porcelain. All the rocks in the neighbourhood
appeared to contain a very large proportion of felspar, from
which millstones have been cut.
On the 2nd of January, 1836, we sailed from Fouges, and
the following night, while passing through the Doro Passage
in a gale of wind with snow-squalls and rain from the N.E.,
we narrowly escaped being wrecked under Cape Colonna,
through the ignorance of our Maltese pilot; the wind then
headed us down the Gulf of Athens, and Captain Mundy
not choosing to trust his pilot any longer, bore away for
Cape S. Angclo, the S.E. extremity of the Morea, behind
which we found shelter in the Bay of Vathica, close to the
island of Servi. The gale increased during the day, and
as we scudded under close-reefed top-sails and courses,
we observed the rocky shores of the Morea covered with
snow to the water's edge, and were close to its iron-bound
coast as we passed round the point, with the wind from
the N.E. During our detention at Servi we found excel-
lent shooting on its barren shores; wild ducks, teal, wood-
cocks, and snipes abounded in the lowlands and pools, but
no inhabitants, though there are several traces of quarries
in the soft shelly rock, which forms an extensive low, level
plain near the sea-shore. We were five days beating up to
Athens, after which we visited Syra before we returned to
Smyrna.
We reached Smyrna on the 27th January, and found that