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Further north, too, in the Lofoten Islands and in the 

 neighbourhood of Tromso, the pointed mountain tops 

 stand out from the snow and ice which to a very large 

 extent covers their flanks and fills up the higher valleys 

 between them. Bare mountain peaks also stand out from 

 the perpetual snows of the Jostedalsbra^ and the Svartisen 

 Glacier. Nansen noticed the same thing in Greenland, 

 and most arctic navigators have given similar testimony. 

 It is therefore safe to assume that even during the glacial 

 periods the ice never completely covered the loftiest 

 mountains. 



The action of floating ice in pushing up the ridge of 

 boulders along the shore at Bodo and in depositing the 

 rounded boulders on the old beach at Vadso, has already 

 been alluded to, but I confess to a slight disappointment 

 at not finding more evidences in this direction. The 

 instances mentioned were not the only ones observed, 

 but, generally speaking, the effects were not very con- 

 spicuous. 



The usual phenomena connected with glaciers is, of 

 course, very apparent wherever glaciers exist or have 

 existed. At the foot of the Buarbrse and the Bojumsbrae 

 (which were the onlv glaciers I visited) there were the 

 usual moraines, and throughout the length of most of the 

 valleys were huge masses of moraine matter, frequently 

 extending completelv across the valley and holding up 

 considerable lakes. The Buar lake, just above Odde, is 

 an instance of this kind, and another lake of similar 

 character exists in the Romsdal. Each glacier, too, has 

 its ice cave, out of which flows the stream caused by the 

 melting of the ice. The ice cave at the Bojumsbrae is 

 of very considerable dimensions. Near the Bojumsbrse 

 is another glacier called the Suphellebrse, which is a good 

 example of a re-cemented glacier. The peculiarity arises 

 from the circumstance that masses of ice break off from 



