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turbed land has moved on an axis of rest, rising at the one 
end and falling at the other. It has been a see-saw move- 
ment, the centre or point of which must be looked for at the 
place where the two inclined terraces are at the normal 
height of the system of which they presumably form a part. 
Keeping in view the upper one only, this place is in the line 
“near the point of observation at Neeverfiord (see Map, Plate 
IV.), for the upper terrace is there 143 feet high, being the 
elevation of the upper line as measured at Tromsde. From 
that place, the terrace falls 58 feet to the transverse line at 
Hoide and Hammerfest. How much farther it may have 
fallen in that direction, has not been ascertained. From the 
same central point it rises proportionately in the opposite 
direction. 
Does the rise continue farther to the southward than the 
line of Komagfiord? I was at first of opinion, that it stopped 
here, instead of going on, as supposed by M. Bravais, to the 
embouchures of the Alten and Kaafiord rivers, because I 
found in Kortsfiord, the next opening to the southward of 
Komagfiord, what I believed to be the upper line, at nine or 
ten feet below its Komagfiord level. Hence it appeared to me 
as if that line had here attained a culmination point, and was 
beginning to descend towards the south. I have since, how- 
ever, discovered the remarkable fact, that if the line of move- 
ment be prolonged till it comes abreast of the mouth of the 
Alten, the perpendicular line then raised upon it will pass 
through the whole range of terraces between that point and 
the mouth of the Kaafiord river, which are all of them about 
220 feet high in front, but rise inland to an entire height of 
239 feet ; and this elevation will be just about what might be 
expected of the upper line prolonged to that point. (See 
Plate III., Lower View, representing the alluvial terrace of 
Quaenvig, a good example of its kind.) The uniformity of the 
elevation of these terraces over a range of 10 miles is in it- 
self remarkable ; their being traversed by the perpendicular 
line from the line of movement at the point where we might 
expect the elevation of the terraces to be attained (see Map, 
Plate IV.), is very striking. Finally, on considering the some- 
what extraordinary character of these alluvial formations, I 
