Some Remarks on the White Limestone of Corfu and Vido

As I have reason to expect that I shall hereafter be able to prepare a detailed account of the Geology of the Ionian Islands, and have at present but few data for a description of even the limited portion of the country as yet examined, I now only offer a few remarks on that portion of the white limestone which is adjacent to the city of Corfu, and occupies the whole of the Island of Vido, and on the more recent strata connected with it. On approaching Corfu the physical aspect of the country is very striking. Monte Decca on the south, and San Salvador on the north, the former with its sharp, broken, rugged outline, the latter with its conical peak rising from a long ridge, and both exhibiting steep faces marked by numerous deep furrows, by no means recal the ordinary forms of limestones in our more northern countries; but the type they present will, I think, be found to have a considerable geological range. In the Venetian harbour of Govino a singular variety of this limestone may be seen, and is thence traceable in rough knolls running in a westerly direction to the north of the village of Potamo. Its dark, rugged and often ochreous aspect, its sonorous fracture, and its impurities, are strong features of distinction between it, and the ordinary white limestone.