84 Robert Chambers, Esq., on Changes of the 
the elevation, at a very distinctly-marked place, was 89°49 
feet, indicating a decided rise in this direction. Within 
Rypfiord, a bay a very little way onward, at a place one mile 
and a half of direct distance from Hammerfest, the elevation 
is 91-58, being nearly a rise of seven feet from the first point 
of observation. 
At Saragamma, another place in Rypfiord, 23 miles from 
Hammerfest, the elevation is 96°69 feet, thus evidently ob- 
serving a certain proportion of rise in this direction. 
Passing round a promontory, along which, on both sides, 
the line is well marked, we found in Akkerfiord a broad allu- 
vial marking in a green recess beside the discharge of a 
small river. This spot is 33 miles of direct distance from 
Hammerfest. The elevation of the terrace is 104-69 feet. 
Hitherto no tolerably distinct trace of the lower line has 
appeared ; but at length at Molstrand, about a mile onward 
from the last place, it becomes visible, as a rough impression 
on the precipitous coast, while a distinct terrace of blocks 
runs along for a short way ata still lower level. The ele- 
vation of the upper or grand line, as it may be called, here 
appeared at 106:11. The point which I assumed as that of 
the lower line is 43°75 feet, and the terrace of blocks 23°65. 
From this point the upper line continues to be well 
marked, along the whole of the west coast of Qualoé, though 
for several miles mostly as an indentation in the soft face of 
the hill, there being only a few rough places where it ap- 
pears as a terrace of erosion. 
At Indre Sioholmen there is a green recess watered by a 
rill; and here, as might be expected, are some alluvial de- 
posits. The lower line here appears as a green terrace at 
44:97 feet; and the upper one in the same character at 
114-32. There are two terraces in the alluvial formation at 
intermediate heights, namely about 97 and 106 feet. 
The upper grand line is clearly traceable along the coast 
of Seiland, from a point opposite to Hoide; but I made no 
measurements there till we reached a place called Quisnaes, 
nearly opposite to Indre Sioholmen. Here the line is deeply 
impressed in the cliffs, at 106°87, being very nearly the same 
as at Molstrand, but decidedly below the terrace at the more 
