Traces of Glaciers 1 1 



leave behind them the marks of what they have done, 

 the faces of the rock worn down and scored by the ice 

 and the stones which it carried with it. Tlie Nicjards- 

 br£e, or the Gredungsbrse branches of the Jostedalsbrse I 

 will mention for the sake of giving instances, or the 

 Kjendalsbrse branch at Loen. Then, again, after he has 

 long left the glacier behind him, our traveller will con- 

 tinue to mark exactly the same scoriations on the rocks 

 in his path that he noticed when he was at the part 

 from which the glacier had only recently retired. 

 I will mention one place where I myself have remarked 

 them in greatest quantities, — the walk between the 

 Gradunasbrae and the sccter, near Gradunstol. But over 

 all Norway they are to be found. 



Only in some of the great mountain regions of the 

 interior do w^e come to peaks which stand higher than 

 the highest point to which the glaciers have reached. 

 This is the case in many of the hills of the Dovrefjeld 

 and the Jotunfjeld. 



Thus the traveller will convince himself of how 

 mucli may be due to the action of the immense ice- 

 sheet when it rested upon the whole of Scandinavia, or 

 when, through subsequent millenniums, it began to 

 decrease and work its way down the mountain-sides 

 towards the sea. Armed with this thought, he will 

 begin to observe how many of the greater hill-sides 

 have the same kind of rubbed and smoothed appearance 

 which he first detected in the rocks, — a smoothness 

 varied by scoriations just such as the lesser rocks have. 

 Even where, now-a-days, the hill is covered by vegeta- 

 tion, this general effect of its contour is very noticeable 

 when once we have had our attention directed to it. I 



