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and is still being slowly upheaved. It is really composed of seven distinct islets, 

 whose intervening channels have been gradually filled in. In 1100 it still formed 

 a group of three, and Borre, a village now lost amidst the fens, stood on the beach 

 in 1510, when a Liibeck fleet anchored in front of the houses and burnt the place 

 to the ground. Puggaard calculates the rate of upheaval at 2^ inches in a hundred 

 years. Like Rugen, Moen is much frequented as a summer retreat. It is merely 

 a detached fragment of the larger island of Sjiilland, whose chalk cliff's, the 

 so-called Stevns Klint, rise in regular strata to a height of 130 feet on the east 

 side, where they present a striking contrast to the Moens Klint, or irregularly 

 stratified rocks of Moen. 



The Ise-fiord, an extensive inlet ramifying into a multitude of winding 

 channels, penetrates far into the northern portion of Sjillland, producing the same 



Fig. 23. — Sjalland and the Southerx Isles. 

 Seule 1 : 1,200,000. 



Depth under 2f Fathoms. 



Depth over 21 Fathoms. 

 _ 10 Miles. 



variety here that is effected by the labyrinth of rocks and passages on the opposite 

 side. Its shores, like those of Moen, have evidentl^'^ been upbeaved, for old marine 

 beds are now visible several feet above sea-level. 



While the Great Belt cuts off" Sjalland from Fyen and Langeland on the west, 

 the Oresund, or simply the Sound, severs it on the east from Scandinavia. This 

 famous channel, however, forms a deep geological parting line between the two 

 lauds, for although the Swedish coast approaches to within 4,480 yards of 

 Helsingor (Elsinore) Castle, it is composed of palEeozoic rocks far older than those 

 of Sjalland. The small Danish islands of the Kattegat also — Samso, Anholt, Lâsô 



