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that I have no hesitation in concluding that, notwith- 

 standing the high latitude and the long winter, the 

 Norwegian glaciers (I speak now of those not within 

 the Arctic circle) are in all respect as " viscous " or " plas- 

 as those of Switzerland in other words, will, equality 

 of size being supposed, move quite as rapidly upon a 



11 slope. 



' Owing to the peculiar condition of the ice which I 

 have described, it was not to be expected that the reined 

 ,'e would be strongly marked, especially as the 

 ier, where I traversed it, was in the act of spreading 

 If abroad, erasing to be confined by the walls of the 

 valley : and, as I have shown by many instances collected 

 in the Alps, the veined or ribboned appearance of the ice 

 unquestionably connected with intense lateral con- 

 in t. It was, however, by no means wanting, and 

 well developed near the contact of the ice with the 

 soil, on its northern bank. 



' On our return from Justedal to Ronneid, T noticed a 

 fact which appeared to me to be incontestable, namely, 

 that the level to which the rochet mout ounces extend on 

 either side of the valley progressively lowers as we ap- 

 proach the sea. This fact, which is also observed in the 

 Swiss valloys, is held to denote, on the glacial theory, 

 the highest level which the glacier at any time attained. 

 From Ronneid we took boat to Solvorn. I spent a day 

 of welcome rest with my former friendly entertainer 

 th !. and proceeded on my now solitary journey to 

 Cliristiania across the Fille-field solitary, because Mr. 

 D.'s engagements at Bergen required him to take the 

 r from Lacrdal to Bergen, which sailed this season 

 but once a week, . . . . leaving me to perform the 

 remainder of the journey to Christianiu alone, by 

 !0 (except a small space by water) without any 

 prospect of communicating with a single individual by 

 \ except throniih the few words of Danish which 

 At Christiania. I OTBfl fortunate in 

 friends, both Norwegian and Kn^lish, 

 which proved a Welcnnn- dian^v afh-r a lon; c.mip;ira- 



