388 Miscellanies. 
and the bark of the branches being still preserved. ‘The whole build- 
ing was eveloped in fine sand. 
The author next notices several circumstances regarding buildings 
in Stockholm and its suburbs, from which he infers that the elevation 
of the land, during the last three or four centuries, has not exceeded 
certain narrow limits. At Upsala he met with the usual indications 
of a former elevation of the sea, from the presence of littoral shells 
of the same species as those now found in the Baltic. Certain 
plants as the G'lauca maritima and the Triglochin maritimus, which 
naturally inhabit salt marshes bordering the sea, flourish in a mead- 
ow to the south of Upsala; a fact that corroborates the supposition 
that the whole of lake Maelar and the adjoining low lands have, at 
no very remote period of history, been covered with salt water. 
The author examined minutely certain marks which had at differ- 
ent times been cut artificially in perpendicular rocks, washed by the 
sea, i various places; particularly near Oregrund, Gefle, Léferund, 
and Edskésund ; all of which concur in showing that the level of the 
sea, when compared with the land, has very sensibly sunk. A sim- 
ilar conclusion was deduced from the observations made by the au- 
thor on the opposite, or western coast of Sweden, between Uddeval- 
ale and Gottenburg ; and especially from the indications presented by 
the islands of Orust, Gulholmen, and Marstrand. 
Throughout the paper a circumstantial account is given of the geo- 
logical structure and physical features of those parts of the country 
which the author visited: and the general result of the comparison 
he draws of both the eastern and western coasts and their islands, with 
the interior, is highly favorable to the hypothesis of a gradual rise 
of the land; every tract having, in its turn, been first a shoal in the 
sea, and then, for a time, a portion of the shore. ‘This opinion is 
strongly corroborated by the testimony of the inhabitants, (pilots and 
fishermen more especially,) of the increased extension of the land, 
and the apparent sinkmg of the sea. ‘The rate of elevation, how- 
ever, appears to be very different in different places: no trace of 
such a change is found in the South of Scania. In those places 
where its amount was ascertained with greatest accuracy, it appears 
to be about three feet in a century. ‘The phenomenon in question 
having excited increasing interest among the philosophers of Sweden, 
and especially in the mind of Professor Berzelius, it is to be hoped 
that the means of accurate determination will be greatly multiplied. 
—Lond. and Ed. Phil. Jour., April, 1835. 
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