GLACIAL ACTION— THE ÂSAK. 



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Glacial Action. — The Àsar. 



"With the fiords of the west correspond the lakes of the east side of the penin- 

 sula. A subsidence of the land would transform them to salt-water inlets, just 

 as an upheaval would change the Norwegian fiords to lakes. There are even 

 many valleys intersecting the Kjolen and the South Norwegian plateaux which are 



Fig. 43. — The Hallebokg and Hun.nebokg Hills. 

 Scale 1 : 200,000. 



Forests aboundinrj in erraUc blocLs 

 — -^ . 2 Miles. 



occupied at certain intervals by marshes and lakelets, apparently survivals of a 

 former strait connecting the fiords on both sides. Such is the Lesjeskogen-vand 

 Lake, 2,044 feet above sea-level, whence flow two streams, the Rauma to the north- 

 west to the Molde-fiord, and the Lougen, south-east through the great Mjosen to 

 the Gulf of Christiania. Many of these lakes have preserved their fiord-like 

 character, and one of them, the Hveningdals-vand, has a depth of 1,600 feet, 

 or 1,418 below the sea-level. 



