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receptacle) nearly split its crater to pieces in the east of the island 

 in the last century by the quantity of scoriae and other ejectamenta 

 that it threw up. But Dranya in Iceland means something deeply 

 and firmly fixed, and so we have TJranga jokull that dominates the 

 fjords in the north-west ; Brangey, the name of the island scene 

 of Gretlir's abode when ontlawed, at the uppei- end of the Skaga- 

 f jordr ; Brangr and Einarsdrangr among the Westmann Islands. 

 And now that one is on the sutjecfc of the everlasting hills, one 

 may compare Mount Pagus in the rear of Smyrna and Tn'j'-jvo/ii, to 

 fix or fasten ; the Greeks conceived the very same idea, and our 

 own '^peg." 



7. I could multiply these instances, bat forbear; and only regret 

 in conclusion, having myself visited South- West Norway and South 

 Italy, and speaking with a personal knowledge of Western Asia, 

 Northern Africa, and the greater part of Western Europe, that the 

 one island which is par excellence the paradise of the geologist, and 

 which certainly far exceeds South Italy in the variety and extent 

 of area of its volcanic phenomena, and is to my mind at least 

 equal to Norway in respect of fjords, illustrations of erosion, and 

 of glacial action, should not have the personal travel, the great and 

 accurate knowledge, and last, not least, the distinguished ability 

 of a Hull or a Logan Lobley bi-ought to bear upon it. 



Postscript. 

 Since the above was in type, the great work of Professor 

 W. C. Brogger, LL.D., Om de senglaciale og postglaciale 

 nivuforandringer i Kristianiofeltet* has reached my hands through 

 the courtesy of its distinguished author. It has been brought 

 out with special advantage to those to whom Norse is an unknown 

 tongue by the addition of a " Summary of the Contents " in 

 English. The various changes of level of the land from thd 

 commencement to the close of the Glacial period ; the advance 

 and retreat of the glaciers at successive stages ; the submergence 

 of the land during the formation of the marine terraces; and 

 the changes of climate during these oscillations are here ably 

 described and illustrated. To those who, like the wi-iter, have 



* Norges geologiske undersegelse. No. 31. 



