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furrow- sliaped cavities, with an inclination of eiglit de- 

 grees southward, where a local deviation in the rock, 

 agreeing with the inclination of the neighbouring glacier, 

 formed a prominency. Parallel with the cavities above 

 described ran small furrows an inch deep; thus these 

 polished cavities of larger dimensions seem to show us 

 that the glaciers at different epochs, and with different 

 degrees of force, flowed down, passing hghtly in some 

 places over the surface of the rocks, and at last resting 

 unevenly on one level, leaving everywhere traces of its 

 presence. Lastly, these small rifts and furrows are 

 known to have been formed from blocks which the 

 streaming glacier had forced against the walls. E/omark- 

 able, too, is the upward tendency of the cavities in sqme 

 places as well as the smaller furrows. The same thing 

 is observable in those spots where the tenacious bulk of 

 the forward-driving masses of the upper portions of the 

 glacier have been hemmed in by projections, or rather 

 when, for a short space, it was forced to go upwards. 

 Where the smaller inclination of the surface of the rocky 

 cone admitted of it, we found it strewn with erratic 

 blocks of a cubic yard in size. They were upright, and 

 situated often in the most peculiar places ; the summit of 

 the rocky cone was also covered with them. At the foot 

 ■ of the Fjord walls lay lateral moraines, placed terrace- 

 wise one above another. Evidently the large glaciers had 

 long since left these spots. Over the frozen road covered 

 with rubbish we reached the terminal moraine, 150 feet 

 high, over which the glacier torrents now hung, turned 

 to icy giant cataracts. What water-floods must have 

 hurried onward to the Fjord when the sun shone bright ! 

 From the height of the terminal moraine ridge the 



