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which at that time was clad with oak forests filled with 

 deer. Before his accession he spent most of his time at 

 Borgholm. At his coronation Oland ale was served. 



I have interrupted Linnaeus's narrative too long. 

 Let us return to him. 



1 On May 31 the journey to Oland was equally 

 impossible ; the hailstorms were as hard as yesterday.' 

 Celsius, who had here fallen in with the party, and 

 Linnaeus occupied themselves with measuring the retro- 

 cession of the Baltic, and caused marks to be made on 

 the rocks at Kalmar with that view, as Celsius had 

 caused to be done some five years before at Gefle. The 

 level of the Baltic has considerably changed in historical 

 times. A well that in 1680 was above the surface of 

 the water, in 1731 was 20| Swedish inches below it. 1 



They took their host, the druggist, out botanising 

 with them and went to the royal country palace, a quarter 



1 The Swedish journal, Norrlottens Kuriren, Sept. 1885, states 

 that the water is falling rapidly in the Gulf of Bothnia. In proof 

 of this the journal states that a stone in the Archipelago, by the 

 coast, which fifty years ago at lowest tide was barely visible above 

 water, is now at mean tide three feet above it. 



'The terraces, the shore-lines, and the sea-marks point to the 

 great rising of the land during the so-called " terrace-epoch," and to 

 long periods of repose.' Du CHAILLU. This is strongly marked at 

 Kinnekulle. 



' It is beyond dispute that the Scandinavian peninsula, at any 

 rate in Sweden, is rising irregularly, biit with extreme slowness ; 

 that a similar elevation has taken place in geological times is 

 clearly shown by the marine shells, clays, sands, skeletons of 

 whales, terraces, and shore-lines now seen at considerable heights 

 above the present level of the sea, and at a distance inland.' 

 PROF. THEODOE KJERULF. 



