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terraces of greater altitude. As, however, there are 

 no roads except along the shore, and the natural features 

 of the country making walking very laborious, I was 

 unable to investigate the matter further in that direction. 

 I was, however, fortunate enough to be able to extend 

 my investigations up to the head of the Varanger Fjord, 

 and from thence right across the low-lying country lying 

 between it and the Tana River, altogether somewhere 

 about 35 miles. Over the whole of that area the same 

 series of terraces is persistent, and it is quite obvious that 

 at no very great distance of time, geologically speaking, 

 the peninsula lying to the eastward of the Tana River, 

 and to the north of the Varanger Fjord, on which the 

 towns of Vadso and Vardo stand, was an island. 



Ju.st above the Lapp village of Karlbotn, which lies at 

 the southern head of the Varanger Fjord, there exists a 

 very interesting featiire in connection with these terraces. 

 To the left of the village, looking from the Fjord, is a 

 magnificent array of terraces, looking, at a distance, like 

 an enormous amphitheatre, with tier rising behind tier in 

 the most perfect manner. On the opposite side is a 

 corresponding series. The terraces for about the lower 

 half of the series extend continuously from one side of 

 the village to the other, but at about half way up, and 

 almost immediately behind the village, there is a break in 

 the continuity, and the breach gets gradually wider and 

 wider with each succeeding terrace, until when the upper- 

 most is reached the interval is very considerable. The 

 appearance is very striking, looking somewhat like huge 

 stairs. 



Standing on the uppermost of a series of terraces 

 forming a kind of promontory immediately behind the 

 Lapp settlement of Bigganjargga, the view was very strik- 

 ing. Immediately in front lay a step-like arrangement of 

 these old beaches, extending almost down to the water of 



