PJOEDS OF SOUTH AMEEICA. 



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Islands are much less varied in form, and sweep in long regular 

 curves. In France we hardly find a vestige of indentations like 

 those of the Norwegian fjords, except at the extremity of Brittany ; 

 and there does not even exist a word in the language to designate 

 them. In Spain, in the^same way, the part of the peninsula turned 

 towards the north-west, and where the ports of Ferrol and Coruna 



Fig. 51.— Fjords of South America. 



open, is ihe only one which presents some lines of fjords half filled 

 up. Two countries on the borders of the Mediterranean have their 

 coasts also cut into fjords^ partially obliterated by alluvium ; these are 

 Asia Minor and Dalmatia, whose high mountains, formerly covered 

 with glaciers, overlook narrow bays with fantastic outlines like the 

 mouths of Cattaro ; but along these two shores the peninsulas of the 

 coast-line are still uniformly turned towards the west. 



