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inclination. This portion of the phenomena fell under the attention 

 of M. Bravais, of the French Scientific Expedition of the North, by 

 whom they were measured barometrically and described. The pre- 

 sent observer took measurements of these inclined terraces by the 

 level and staff, in eighteen or twenty places, and thus confirmed the 

 views of his predecessor. By Mr Chambers's observations, the fol- 

 lowing new points are ascertained : 1. The terraces, as being in- 

 clined, form an exceptive case, in contrast with those of a neighbour- 

 ing district of coast of much larger extent (at least 180 geographical 

 miles). 2. The disturbed district has moved on an axis of rest near 

 Nceverfiord, where the two ten-aces are about the normal height. 

 3. A line, 14° west of north, (l>eing nearly the line of the magnetic 

 meridian), being drawn across the disturbed district, the inclination 

 is shewn to be equable throughout equal spaces of that line, which 

 is thus proved to be the meridian of the movement. 4. The northern 

 extremity of the dip of the upper line at Hammerfest is 58 feet 

 below, and the southern extremity, abreast of the Alten terraces, is 

 96 feet above the axis of rest. 



The author then described visits which he paid in September 1849 

 to two of the places in the Gulf of Bothnia where marks have been 

 made in order to detect the rate of movement of the land ; at the 

 rock near Lbfscrrund he found the sea about six inches below the 

 mark made sixteen years before by Sir Charles Lyell ; while, on the 

 cliffs of Grasbe, where Flumen made a mark in 1820, the water was 

 exactly eleven inches lower. 



His Grace the Duke of Argyll 

 was duly elected an Ordinary Fellow. 



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