THE DANISH ISLANDS. 



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a number of lakelets to the height of 462 feet, and the neighbouring cliffs have an 

 elevation of 330 to 430 feet above the sea. The disturbances of the strata have 

 caused these steep bluffs to assume the most singular outlines, their distorted and 

 even reversed layers recalling, on a small scale, the overlappings of the Jura and 



Fig. 22. — Fyen and the Southern Isles. 

 Scale 1 : 500.000. 



Under 'Ji r'atlioms. 



Over 2^ FatLuins. 

 5 Miles. 



Alps. Through the gorges opened at intervals in the cliffs the beech forests reach 

 down to the level of the sea. 



Seafarers passing from the Baltic towards AVismar, Kiel, or Liibeck can often 

 distinguish the rocky shores of Moen and the lofty headlands of Hiigeu, formerly 

 united, but now separated by a strait 33 miles broad and 11 fathoms deep. It seems 

 probable that after having subsided IMoen was again raised above the waters,. 



