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MR. LYELL ON THE PROOFS OF A GRADUAL RISING OP 



and the Telje canal again closed up, the waters of the lake would immediately stand 

 at a higher level* ? 



There are some marks in the suburbs of Stockholm which serve, I think, to set 

 narrow limits to the extreme amount of elevation which can by possibility have taken 

 place during the last three or four centuries. To one of these, the Fiskartorp of 

 Charles XL, I shall particularly allude, (see Map, fig. 7-,) because an attempt has 

 been made to draw from it the opposite inference of a rapid elevation of the land. 



Map of the northern environs of Stockholm, showing the site of the Fiskartorp. 



This fishing lodge is situated on a promontory surrounded on three sides by lakes 

 (see Map, fig. 7.)- The lodge is 131 yards distant from the nearest water, and 

 twenty-three feet above its level. By the side of it is a large oak, and a second one of 

 considerable age between it and the lake, only forty-six yards from the margin of the 

 water, and having its base only ten feet above the level of the lake, which at the time 

 that I visited it stood at least one foot below its mean height. (See Section, fig. B.) 

 Mr. Strom, Keeper of the Royal Woods and Forests, assured me that the age of this 

 oak cannot be less than four centuries. There are already some signs of decay at 

 its top, and its diameter at the height of five feet above the ground is four feet four 



* Professor Johnston, in his paper in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, No. 29, July 1833, has by 

 mistake represented the houses where the piles are giving way as situated on the side of the Skeppsbron instead 

 of the Riddarholmen. 



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