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THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 



observers, so far as regards portions of the coast, but the obser- 

 vations have not before been brought together as a unit, and 

 viewed as a general feature. The annexed little map (1:400,000) 

 shows one of the coast islands to the south of Bryan, encircled 

 by many other smaller islands and skerries (Fig 2). The coast 

 plain is made black, and the parts rising above it are marked 

 with hachures. In the middle of the large island, one will 

 remark a small white cross. If a person were to stand there 



and look towards the south- 

 east, he would see the land- 

 scape represented in the ac- 

 companying sketch (Fig i), 

 in which the mountain Siggen, 

 and some smaller mountains 

 to the southwest of it are 

 seen rising above the coast 

 plain. The next picture (Fig 

 3) is probably still more char- 

 acteristic. It gives a view of 

 some islands at a little dis- 

 tance north of the town, 

 Bergen. The island, which 

 looks like a hat, is Alden, 

 1,500 feet high. The name 

 of the island group with the 

 three small knolls is Varoc. 

 The low tracts, here repre- 

 sented, are not built of loose 

 materials as one might sup- 

 pose from the appearance, but 

 are almost all carved from 

 solid rock, and hard rock too, viz., crystalline schists of different 

 kinds, dioritic rocks and conglomerates. The region of Bommeloe, 

 illustrated above, also has a very complex geological structure. 

 These are some instances of the mode of occurrence of the 

 remnants of the coast plain. The plain may be traced along our 

 whole western coast from 50° north latitude to the extremest 



Fig. 2. Region of Bommeloe. 



