64) Dr Forchhammer on the 



Already a superficial view of the cliff shows a great difference 

 between this and that of Stevensklint ; while at the latter place 

 the rock, for an extent of six miles, continues uninterruptedly, 

 the cliffs of Moen are often interrupted by stones covered 

 with turf and wood ; and this difference in external appearance 

 is owing to a quite different composition of the rock. The 

 principal mass which it forms is also generally called chalk, al- 

 though there is some difference between this and that from 

 Stevensklint. It is much harder ; it cannot be used for writ- 

 ing, although it soils the fingers on touching. It appears thus 

 like an indurated marl. There occur in it beds of flint in 

 nodules, in no way different from those of Stevensklint as to 

 the nature of the flint ; but the beds thereof have by no means 

 the regularity of those of Stevensklint. They are bent in every 

 direction, with more or less curvature, and are in general 

 showing a tendency to form ellipsoids like the coral limestone 

 of Stevensklint. It is rare that they occur in continued beds ; 

 but in one place, at the foot of the highest point of the cliff 

 called Dronningstoel (Ocean's Stair) such beds are seen, 

 which show ellipsoidal contractions and expansions. This 

 chalk-like rock rests in some places on a blue marl and a sand, 

 with large masses of rolled granite, gneiss, hornblende rock, 

 &c. In other places it includes the sand and the marl, and in 

 still other places it is covered by them. Till now it has been sup- 

 posed that this rock of Moen was entirely identical with the 

 chalk of Stevensklint, and both termed members of the great 

 chalk formation of the Baltic. This position, however, upon 

 a sand vastly different both from green sand and iron sand, 

 which both occur in Denmark, gives an additional interest to 

 these chalky cliffs. I have twice lived for some days on the 

 spot, and repeatedly visited the interesting places, and thus 

 fully convinced myself that no error has crept into my obser- 

 vations. If my conviction, however, was only founded upon 

 a single spot, a deception was possible; but there exist so many 

 instances of this superposition in the whole cliff, that one 

 serves for the explanation of the other. One of the principal 

 places is a recess close to the foot of a huge projecting rock, 

 which is called Taleren, (the speaker, on account of a very 

 clear echo which formerly was heard there.) It forms a slope, 



