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Jotes on a Summer Tour tr Porwap. 
By Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., F.G.S., Ere. 
(Read before the Society, March 13th, 1891.) 
We ey N the admirable address delivered to us at the com- 
Bp 8 mencement of this session, our President brought 
before us, in a very attractive manner, the observa- 
tions he had made during a holiday ramble in a very remote and 
comparatively unknown part of our Islands. I think the example 
which was thus set is one which, if followed more frequently by 
our Members, would conduce materially to the interest of our 
meetings, and to the welfare of the Society ; and it is with the 
hope that others may be induced to bring before us similar 
observations that I have ventured to give you this evening some 
account of a tour in Norway which was made by my wife and 
myself last July. I do not intend to take up your time with a 
description of the ordinary incidents of travel, or with a general 
description of the country and its inhabitants, for Norway is now 
almost as well known to the British tourist as is Switzerland, and 
those of you who have not visited Scandinavia will find a multi- 
tude of works dealing with these points in a far more attractive 
manner than I can possibly do. I intend to occupy the short 
time at my disposal this evening in giving you a brief description of 
the natural features of the country, and in endeavouring to trace 
out the complex physical causes which, in bringing about the 
present conformation of the surface, have given birth to mountain 
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