Relative Level of Sea and Land in Scandinavia. 73 
sea. Seen from the opposite side of the valley, or from the 
streets of Trondheim, it appears as a dark band across the 
hill-face. On near inspection, we find a deep cut into the 
almost horizontally disposed slate-rocks, with a ledge, flat 
though rough, at some places as much as twenty paces 
broad, while overhead rises a cliff more or less bold, formed 
of the angular edges of the broken strata, with here and 
there a modern talus descending upon the terrace. Not the 
least doubt can exist, that it is the effect of the working of 
the sea, when this part of the hill was on a level with the 
waves. On the opposite coasts of the Trondheim fiord there 
are marks of a similar terrace at apparently about the same 
elevation. The drawing here exhibited presents the appear- 
ance of the terrace above the city of Trondheim, at a place 
where its floor is well defined and flat, and the cliff nearly 
yertical, and certainly not less than forty feet high. Direct- 
ing our eyes to the southward, we here see a hill about a 
mile off, called Sverrosborg, because King Sverro, a dis- 
tinguished Norwegian monarch of the twelfth century, had 
a fort upon the top of it. This top is composed of a mass of 
bare rock about thirty feet high, starting up out of the green- 
sided hill. The terrace of erosion is marked all round under 
the mass of bare rock, producing a curious and quaint ap- 
pearance. The sea has manifestly worn out this terrace at 
the time when it produced the line of erosion on the neigh- 
bouring hill-face, for it is precisely of the same height. 
Some of the neighbouring grounds come to about the same 
level, as if produced by a contemporaneous silting-up of these 
spaces to the surface of the sea. 
Connected with this terrace of erosion there are some re- 
markable alluvial terraces in the interior of the country. A 
few miles to the south-east of Trondheim, the road leaves the 
Nid valley, and passes into that of the Gula, a powerful river 
which discharges itself into a neighbouring branch of the 
fiord. The country over which the road passes between the 
two valleys, is a spacious moor, composed of detrital matter, 
and very flat. Its general elevation is about the same 
height with the great terrace of erosion. When we ad- 
vance into the Gula valley near the post-station of Oust, 
