Il8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



the Fjord, and on the opposite side of the Fjord, from 

 the extreme left of the range of vision, all along the shore, 

 passing Karlbotn and right away to the valley of the Tana 

 River for many miles, there is an almost continuous 

 ranofe of terraces, hroken onlv here and there bv the more 

 precipitous mountain spurs, constituting probably as fine 

 a panorama of ancient l)cachcs as it would be possible to 

 see. 



In the neighbourhood of Vadso each of the more 

 [)rominent terraces is bordered on the land side by a 

 range of low cliffs, having preciselv the appearance of the 

 cliffs against which the sea now washes lower down, and 

 it is [)crfectly easy to estimate the force of the waves 

 which once played against them. In places where the 

 wave action was but slight, the shales are merely sub- 

 angular slabs, piled up precisely as may be seen on any 

 beach where the rocks are flaggy or shaly, whilst towards 

 the west of the town, where the water must have exerted 

 greater force, the pebbles are perfectly rounded, and the 

 rocks against which they lie smoothed and worn away by 

 the continuous pounding of the pebbles. There were 

 many small potholes or giants kettles in the rocks, in a 

 few instances having the original pebbles remaining in 

 them. 



The 240 foot terrace was perhaps the most extensive, 

 having a width in places of 40 to 50 yards, and this was 

 remarkable in another way. All along for miles it was 

 strewn with thoroughly well-rounded boulders, many of 

 them of huge dimensions, much too large to have been 

 transported by water, except in the form of ice. Many of 

 the boulders were of material not found in the immediate 

 locality, and the only way to account for their presence is 

 to assume that they were brought there by drift ice. So 

 far as one could judge from an imperfect knowledge of 

 the country, they came from the eastward, beyond the 

 head of the Fjord. 



