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NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION THROUGH ARABIA PETRÆA,

composed, and with which they are grouped by Lartet. There are also fine sandy bands with pseudomorphs of salt crystals, all indicating lacustrine conditions.

At the cave I examined, immense masses of the rock salt had fallen down quite recently; and further north, where the rock is traversed by