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side of the river, of which the part between the lake and the fjord 

 is named the River Eieo, almost all the east side being occupied 

 by the high moraine. The river and terraces are seen in the photo- 

 graph, Fig. 3. The most extensive terrace is the flat upon which 

 the church and village of Vik stand. It is about 50 feet above the 

 fjord and rises inland. Below it there is a smaller flat, say 10 feet 

 above the fjord, on which the Hotel Voringsfos stands, and still 

 lower there is a fair extent of flat at the present level of the river. 

 Each of these flats must mark pauses in the elevation of the land, 

 and, as I have suggested above, the river probably cut its channel 

 through the moraine deeper in proportion as the land rose. 



Fig. 3. — A^iew from the Mouth of the Eiyeu Eieo, Yik i Eidfjord. 



As I have shown that the ice left the lake at any rate before the 

 channel had been excavated to anything like its present depth, and 

 as all the material of which these terraces are formed must have 

 been brought across the lake at the same time as that of which the 

 highest terrace is formed, I am inclined to think that originally the 

 highest terrace filled the whole valley from side to side and from 

 the lake to the fjord, and that the step terraces are not formed by 

 subsequent deposition but have been carved out of it by river 

 erosion. 



My reasons for this conclusion are as follows ; — 



At the seaward side of the moraine on the west of the river there 

 is a space where bare rock is exposed practically from the river to 

 the side of the valley (Fig. 1, C), but nearer the fjord there is 



