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of wet meadows and fens with two overgrown small lakes and is of 

 very recent origin; in a late post-glacial period it was a sound and 

 H0je M0en was thus an independent island. Even in historic times the 

 village B o r r e, which at the present day lies in the centre of the de- 

 pression 3 km. from the sea, was a port engaged mainly in the herring 

 fishery (in the year 1510 the Lubeck fleet sailed up through the narrow 

 entrance and sacked the town; but in 1648 the complaint was made, 

 that only small boats could reach up to it). 



From the Borre depression the land ascends somewhat steeply to- 

 wards the east in more or less irregular waves and forms the compact 

 mass, which is called H j e M e n. The highest points (A b o r r e- 

 b j e r g, 143 m., and Kongsbjerg, 135 m.) lie close out towards the 

 sea yet inside the coast line, which for almost the whole way consists 

 of steep chalk cliffs broken by deep clefts; the highest points of the 

 cliffs are Dronningestolen (Queen's Seat) and H y 1 1 e d a 1 s 

 Klint (128 m.). The chalk layers in the cliffs are inclined, bent and 

 much displaced (see Introduction), which is believed to have occurred 

 at a very late period; but the surface of the land is covered by moraine 

 clay and sand, the chalk not appearing on the surface except on the 

 side of the cliffs. The deep clefts ( falls ) are filled with moraine 

 deposits, which are also found here and there in streaks and pockets 

 enclosed between the chalk layers. In the clefts and many other places 

 we find freshwater springs and small water-courses, surrounded by a 

 very luxuriant spring-water vegetation. At the base of the cliffs there 

 is a narrow foot (beach), which, however, when the water is high and 

 the wind blowing onshore, is often entirely covered by the waves 

 which break against the cliff. --At many places on H0je M0en there 

 are numerous larger or smaller landslip hollows (pot holes, Jord- 

 faldshuller), which are supposed to have been formed by the gradual 

 dissolving of certain parts inside the chalk by the constant infiltration of 

 water; in this way holes or caves were formed and the roof at last has 

 fallen in. The characteristic hollows thus formed have fairly steep 

 sides and a flat bottom and may be filled with water, the earlier existing 

 outlet having become stopped up. In any case one of the three small 

 lakes on H0je M0en (Hunoso, Aborres0 and G j e d d e s 0) has 

 been formed in this way, namely, Aborre Lake. - - The greater part of 

 H0je M0en is cultivated land, but considerable stretches of wood also 

 occur (ca. 700 hectares) as well as a certain amount of pasture grassland 

 and the coastal tract. 



The plant associations on the chalk cliffs of M0en, which 

 are of special interest to botanists, are mainly the following (considering 

 here only the associations which occur (a) above on the surface of the 

 cliffs, (b) on the slopes and (c) on the base at the coast) : 



1. The cliff wood (Klinteskoven) is a pure beech wood 

 (Fagus association), in which Fagus silvatica is practically the only 



