86 Robert Chambers, Esq., on Changes of the 
terrace is continued across this formation, as a broad fat 
plain of several acres in extent, and slightly ridged in front ; 
shewing that the formation of the line has been an event 
subsequent to the subaqueous discharge and formation of the 
delta. It may be remarked that, 25 feet above this plain, is 
another of smaller extent, bearing curious curvilinear ridges 
in a direction from front to rear. 
I continued my measurements along Varg Sund on both 
sides, and found a constant rise, though manifestly in a less 
rapid ratio. Ata placea little east of Neeverfiord, the upper 
line passes distinctly across the almost perpendicular cliffs 
at 143 feet. At Rabastynaes, nearly opposite, I found, with 
the mirror level, the same line broadly marked at 144 feet, 
with a block of a different rock as large as a good-sized house 
reposing upon it. The great bold promontory called Quaen- 
klubb (Plate III., Upper View) exhibits the lower line as a 
rough horizontal breach of the cliff, but the upper as a flat 
rocky floor of fifty paces broad, formed by a section of the 
almost vertical slaty strata, and 154 feet above the sea. In 
the adjacent green recess, the two lines form distinct indenta- 
tions across the soft ground, the lower being here 57 feet. The 
face of Quaenklubb exhibits platforms at greater heights, 
namely, 176, 216, 302, and 318 feet, none of them of any great 
extent, and therefore dubious as indications of an ancient 
working of the sea, but remarkable for the burden which they 
bear of gneiss blocks and gravel, and other transported ma- 
terials. On the platform at 302 feet, there is a block of gneiss, 
perfectly unworn, and measuring fully ten feet each way. 
At Olderfiord in Seiland, a little farther along the sound, 
the upper line appears at 154 feet, besides two terraces in a 
green recess at 56 and 64 feet. Ata point in the mainland 
opposite Storbeckarfiord, the lower line of erosion appeared 
at 64 feet, and the upper at 161. The latter is here a very 
rude flat, where not three yards are free of irregularities, 
produced by ridges of the strata, or loose blocks,—the cliff 
rising above it not less irregular,—the whole rendered still 
more rough by masses of moss, stumps of trees, and the 
living vegetation, from the wild flower to the birch; yet is 
the terrace nevertheless so far definite, that it has been 
