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to about five hundred feet above the level of the sea, no shelves 
were afterwards discernible. The country consisted now, on 
the lee-side of the heights, of sand-hills and ridges. The ridges 
were composed in many places altogether of boulder-stones ; 
the hills had, in the beds of their streams, a mixture of clay. 
Somewhat to the north of Christianstad there again appeared, 
though rarely, shelves, not however such as were suitable for 
determining with accuracy the direction of the furrows. I could 
only see that they, as at Carlskrona and Brémsbro, went deci- 
dedly to the south-west, apparently more south-westerly than at 
these places. Between Christianstad and Ystad, the large sand- 
hills are intimately mixed with shelly gravel (snackgrus), pow- 
dered chalk (kritpulver), and pieces of cretaceous flint (krit- 
flintstenbitar). 
In Pomerania the pieces of flint are in still greater abundance, 
to such a degree, that even to Pasewalch it answers to separate 
them from the sand by riddling, for the purpose of making the 
new high road. Passing Prenzlow and Berlin, the sand is less 
mixed with cretaceous flints. Around Jiiterbéck the sandbe gins 
to contain a mixture of pure white quartz, which, by attrition, 
has been worn down to the size of walnuts and hazel-nuts. This 
increases around Elsterwerda, and for about three Swedish miles 
further eastward. At Morizburg, near Dresden, the solid rock is 
again visible, and appears to have been very much battered by the 
boulder-stones, but it is without furrows. I had not sufficient 
time to visit Freyberg, where I certainly should have procured 
the most correct information; but not, however, altogether to 
give up the advantage of the passage over the Erzgebirge and 
Sudeterne, I took the road through the Saxon Switzerland, 
as it is called, so famous for its high sandstone rocks, with 
perpendicular precipices on all sides, and whose form does not 
appear to be compatible with the occurrence of any boulder- 
flood. As this tract might be cited as an evidence against the 
flood being general, and thus raising an apparent objection to 
it, I could not neglect to make myself acquainted with it. 
When we approach this district from above Pirna, and see 
Konigstein, Lilienstein, and Bahrenstein, which are pretty ac- 
curately represented in the prints that are usually for sale in the 
shops, we cannot understand how such isolated rocks of a loose 
sandstone, so upright, high and steep, but so small in circumfe- 
rence, should have withstood a flood which we suppose carried 
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