408 Sir IT. H. Eoivorth—The Western Baltic Goad. 



as Wismar and beyond, is broken by a number of inlets, apparently 

 due to subsidence. At Travemiinde are two great blocks of stone 

 which are now in the water, but which the sea had not reached at 

 the end of the eighteenth century. At Heiligenhaf and the island 

 of Fehmarn we again meet with submerged forests, and at the 

 eastern outlet of the Fehmarn Sound are remains of an ancient wall. 

 The whole coast of Schleswig-Holstein bears similar traces, inter 

 alia the worn island of Werder, near Heiligenhaf. The former 

 perch - frequenting inland lake on the coast at Probstei is no 

 longer a lake, but an arm of the sea. The ancient hunting 

 lodge of Bramhorst on the same coast has disappeared, while 

 the trunks of the trees in the wood which once surrounded it are 

 now submerged as far out as five hundred paces from the shore. 

 The castle of Altbulk on the north side of the harbour of Kiel did 

 not when it was built stand as it does now, on the edge of the water. 

 The Wurdebye Noer, near Eckenforde, has all the appearance of 

 having formerly been a lake. It is now an arm of the sea. 

 According to V. Maack the remains of the Schleimuuder Burg at 

 the mouth of the Schlei are now under water. The island of Oehe, 

 north of the mouth of the Schlei, was formerly a peninsula, and the 

 peninsula of Maasholm on the south side of the same is rapidly 

 becoming an island. V. Maack calls attention to the haven of 

 Dywig or Ducwig on the north-west coast of Alsen (near Norburg), 

 which was once a lake. The Slipsee and the Bankeldam, between 

 Apenrade and Hadersleben, are examples of the same kind, as is the 

 inlet of Heilsmunde on the Danish frontier (op. cit, pp. 162-165). 



Orsted, in his monograph on the fauna of the Sound, to be 

 presently referred to, speaks of submergences having taken place 

 at Vedboek, between Sletten and Humleboek, and at Sledkersteen, 

 both on the coast of Zealand, attested by the reports of fishermen 

 who had noticed trunks of trees with their roots in the ground in 

 the sea far from the shore (op. cit., p. 18). 



K. Rordam, in his memoir entitled " Salt vandsalluviet i det 

 nordostlige Sjaelland," has shown in a map the large area which 

 was depressed in that part of Denmark in recent times, especially 

 in so far as the depression affected its great fiords, notably the Isefiord 

 and the Eoskildefiord, and the two once submerged bogs known as 

 the Store and Lille Torvegrund, south of Frederiksvaerk ; and he 

 mentions how in the Sound at Charlottenlund, opposite the 

 restaurant of Constantia, there is a submarine turbary two metres 

 under the water. 



He also describes several peat bogs now above sea-level, but 

 underlying beds of the Lilorina time, on the coast of Zealand, as 

 proving the same fact. Thus, in a turf bed a quarter of a mile north 

 of Skuldelev, called Mosejord, there is a bed of clay 2-5 feet thick, 

 containing Cardium edule and Nassa reticulata, overlying one of turf 

 with remains of oak, birch, juniper-berries, and fruit of the buck 

 bean. Another peat bog at Hei-slev shows a bed of meadow-soil 

 covering marl, without shells, then a layer with many beach shells, 

 lastly a bed of the same kind of turf as that at Skuldelev. 



