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still perfect fiords of the extreme north every possible shade of transition may be 

 studied. Here, if anywhere, the problem regarding the duration of the present 

 o-eological epoch may possibly yet be solved. Here every still surviving glacial 

 stream, every ancient glacier bed, records in detail the alternating history of the 

 climate during the period subsequent to the glacial age. Every fiord thus becomes 



Fig. 42. — Silted Fiords north of the Naze. 

 Scale 1 : 240,000. 



Depth under UO Fathoms. 



Depth over 110 Fathoms. 

 3 Miles. 



a meteorological and geological apparatus, by the remains of its moraines, by the 

 striœ of its rocky ribs, by the alluvia of its streams clearly indicating all the 

 changes that have taken place in the surroundings. Building on these and 

 similar data, Theodore Kjerulf has already attempted to introduce a more exact 

 chronology into the geological record. 



