Relative Level of Sea and Land in Scandinavia. (i 
historical era. There are not wanting, however, evidences 
of a similar nature, that the relative level of sea and land 
has, in Scandinavia, undergone a much greater change. 
The valley of the Rauma, which opens upon the west coast, 
and that of the Logan, an affluent of the Glommen, which 
pours itself into the Baltic, meet in a trough of country in 
the Dovre field, the summit of which is occupied by the Ldsso- 
verks vand, 2045 feet above the sea. By an extraordinary 
natural arrangement, the lake emits the Rauma at one end 
and the Logan at the other; so that a portion of Norway is 
completely enclosed by natural water. The valley of the 
Logan, for several miles down, contains great masses of pure 
sand, in the form of terraces and isolated mounts. On one 
of the latter, Dovre Church is situated, at an elevation of 1543 
feet. In this portion of the valley, there is a terrace unlike 
the rest, in as far as it is a narrow ledge of detrital matter, 
running continuously along the hill-side for fully 14 miles, 
however much more, while the terraces resting on the skirts 
of the hills lower down are great projecting masses, seldom 
extending far on one level. This remarkable terrace is most 
conspicuous on the right or south-west side of the valley. 
It begins on that side at Oue, between the Hougen and Tofte 
post-stations. It is there seen truncating the prominent an- 
cient delta of a side stream, called, in Professor Munch’s 
map, the Jondal’s Elv, several hundred feet above the bottom 
of the valley. As we ascend the valley, it becomes nearer to 
our eye; but this is only because we rise to it, for, when ex- 
amined with a correct instrument from its own elevation on 
the opposite side, it is proved to be for a great way truly 
horizontal. On the left or north-east side of the valley, the 
corresponding mark is a line composed of slight projecting 
banks of water-laid sand. Though not continuous, this line 
is sufficient to have determined that of a long mountain-path 
connecting a series of farms. Beyond Lie post-station, the 
road to Molde passes along it, and it here affords positions 
for a close series of hamlets, which make a conspicuous ap- 
pearance in the map above cited. I believe it is nearly, if 
not exactly, of the same elevation with the little hof, called 
