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have described a shore line formed at an early period by the Gulf of 

 Drontheim, at the foot of a sandy bank, near Steenkjor, and now situated 

 about twenty feet above the Fjord. In the same journal I have also in- 

 dicated the horizontal channellings which have been remarked ih the 

 prefecture of Nordlands, and in Finmark, not only in the loose soil, but 

 also in the hard rock, at a height of from fifty to one hundred feet above 

 the level of the sea. We must doubtless refer also to this class of facts, 

 certain accumulations of rolled blocks ranged in a parallel manner at the 

 margin of the sea, which have been observed at Sandmoor by M. Schive, 

 the inspector of lighthouses, who will soon publish a notice on the subject. 

 As to the other class of facts in question, many of the phenomena have 

 already been made known to geologists, by the travels of MM. de Buch, 

 Hisinger, and Brongniart. But last year I made some new researches, 

 which have led me to some general results. After having, during pre- 

 vious expeditions, examined many localities in the north {Magazin for 

 Nafur, 1. c), and in the south of Norway, where the shell gravel occurs 

 which has been examined in other quarters by the authors I have just 

 citedj and where also the clay has been found, containing marine shells, 

 observed near Steenkjor by Von Buch, I devoted nearly the entire vaca- 

 tion of last summer to the investigation of these same deposits. My 

 friend M. Boeck, Professor at the Veterinary School of Christiana (who is 

 about to make himself known to geologists by a monograph on trilo- 

 bites), and myself, surveyed more particularly the prefecture of Smaaleh- 

 nene, where these deposits occur most frequently, I need not remind 

 geologists of the very interesting discovery made by M. A. Brongniart, of 

 the bases of Balani still adhering to the rock, at an elevation of nearly 

 200 feet above the level of the sea, near Uddevalla, in Sweden. The 

 same fact presented itself to us at a place called Hellesaaen, about eight 

 leagues distant from the coast, and elevated about 430 Paris feet above 

 the level of the sea. We saw the shell gravel at several places where it 

 had not been previously noticed ; and there were always at least some 

 of the shells, even the most fragile, in a state of conservation so perfect, 

 that there cannot be a doubt of the gravel having been formed on the 

 spots where it now reposes. As to the clay, it appeared to us pretty 

 certain that all the great argillaceous deposits so widely spread over the 

 S. E. of Norway, often having a thickness of upwards of 100 feet, 

 and from which clay for bricks is obtained, belong, without exception, 

 to the same formation, although it appears that in certain places they 

 contain no fossils. We collected about fifty species of shells in the 

 gravel and in the clay. M. Deshaycs has examined nearly the whole col- 

 lection, and has detected no species which do not occur in a recent state 

 in the North Sea. (All the fossils of the shell gravel of which IVI. Hisinger 

 has lately given the enumeration, are living species.) Besides the shells, 

 we may also cite the skeleton of a whale which was discovered in 1682, 

 near Frederikshald, in the clay of Fistedalcn, and another found in the 



