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judge from the description and drawings, the Table Mountain 
at the Cape of Good Hope is similarly circumstanced with 
the sandstone rocks in the Saxon Switzerland. From this it is 
_ probable, that the boulder-flood which passed over Scandinavia, 
Germany and England in a southern direction, has also pro- 
ceeded over the south of Europe and Africa in the same direc- 
tion, viz. south-west. 
How it afterwards took its course we cannot determine; but 
from the information I can obtain relative to the navigation 
around Van Diemen’s Land and New Holland, and the other 
Australian islands,the southern coasts there are rocky, the north- 
ern, on the contrary, surrounded by sand-banks; so that the 
flood very probably flowed there towards the north. To judge 
from two charts published by Horsburgh of the navigation 
around Sumatra and Java, where rocks encompass the southern 
coasts and sand-banks the northern, one would also be led to 
suppose that the flood had here also gone to the north. If this 
should be confirmed by observations made on the spot, the flood 
should have gone towards the north over the eastern part of 
Asia, towards the north-west over Samoida, to the west of north 
over Nova Zembla, and to the south over Greenland. From 
this ‘may possibly be explained the appearance of skeletons of 
elephants and other animals in the north of Siberia, as well as 
in other countries in whose climates those animals scarcely could 
live. But hypotheses are not explanations, and therefore I here 
break off the detail of what I might have gathered from such an 
uncertain source. 
Fahlun, 2nd November, 1836. 
Since my return I have had an opportunity of arranging the 
observations on the furrows, which were partly made by my 
friends during my absence, and partly by myself, whilst on 
my way home. The principal contributor has been Mr. H. 
Wegelin, who visited the places in Nerike and West Gothland, 
where I had before been, and investigated the whole of the 
western coast, and the coast of Sconia, where observations 
were wanting. Without having any knowledge of the results 
which I had obtained at the first-named places, his observations, 
to my great satisfaction, corroborate what I had myself ascer- 
tained. 
The results communicated by him are shown in the following 
Table :— 
