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Festuca rubra, which towards the sea changed to salt-marsh 

 vegetation, with Ca rex glareosa, C. salina v. aubspathacea, Gly- 

 cerin Vahliana, G. vilfoidea, Stellnria humifusa and Arenaria 

 ciliata. 



Klitdalen (Chr. Kruuse). 



While referring to the following remarks of Hartz on the 

 stony plains hy Bi elven I shall here mention those hy me, 

 partly in the company of Hartz, visited parts of the valley. 



On the 2°*^, 5*^ and 8^*' of Angust we undertook an inve- 

 stigation of the nearest parts of Klitdalen. Landing is 

 effected with no difficulty on the eastern side as far as to the 

 low range of hills (see Koch, Med. o. Grl. XXVH, p. 288). At 

 Vargodden is water enough, but farther west large tracts 

 become dry at low water. The stream was unnavigable, even 

 to our flatbottomed steel pram. 



The hill-range divides the valley in two different parts, 

 a western pervaded by Ryders Elv and filled with deposits 

 of sand and gravel, the materials of which are, for the greater 

 part, derived from the sedimentary formations of the Jameson 

 Land, and the eastern, which is a marine terrace, a continua- 

 tion of the formations, described on p. 377, whose materials 

 originate in the archaic mountains of the Liverpool Land and 

 is, to a great extent, stamped by the glaciers formerly issued 

 from its névé. 



The hill-range itself belongs to the archaic side and ends 

 this towards the west; it consists of solid rock, but this is, for 

 the greater part, hidden under loose soils. Its southern end 

 consisted of clayey sand sparely strown with boulders; closer 

 to the stream was clean sand. The ground was rich in water, 

 especially wherewer the clay was dominant , small springs were 

 soaking the soil without, however, forming pools or brooks. 



On dry spots the surface was cracked or forming small 

 hillocks separated by a net of ditches, the bottoms of which 



