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portion of the surface rocks being metamorphic, I believe 

 I am correct in saying that there are a few examples of 

 igneous rock, properly so-called. Granitoid rocks there 

 are in abundance, but most of them are only granitic in 

 appearance, and are, in point of fact, sedimentary rocks 

 which have undergone extreme metamorphosis. Nor is 

 there any evidence of volcanic energy in mesozoic times, 

 such as we have in the West of Scotland in the vast 

 sheets of Basalt and kindred rocks which there overspread 

 so large an extent of country. 



The extent of the knowledge of the geology of a 

 country like Norway which can be acquired in the course 

 of a month, most of which was spent at sea, is necessarily 

 very small, and that, together with the fact that my object 

 in going to Norway was not primarily geological, must be 

 my apology for the brevity and disconnected nature of 

 this communication. 



P.S. — Since the above paper was written, a paper by 

 Col. H. W. Fielden, F.G.S., on " The Glacial Geology of 

 Arctic Europe and Its Islands," has appeared in the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. lii., 

 p. 721, and two others by A. Strahan, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 

 (whose name appears above), " On Glacial Phenomena of 

 Palaeozoic Age in the Varanger Fjord," and on " The 

 Raised Beaches and Glacial Deposits of the Varanger 

 Fjord," will also be found in the same journal, vol. Hii., 

 pp. 137 and 147. Some of the matters touched on in 

 my paper are there dealt with in greater detail, and to 

 those papers the reader is referred. 



Chas. Upton 



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