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EISE OF LAND IN SWEDEN. 



XXXI 



instead of having been about 20 feet nnder vpater, as it ono-ht 

 to have been^ according to the computation of Celsius. Several 

 towns, also, on the shores of the Baltic, as Lubeck, Wismar 

 Rostock, Stralsund, and others, after 600 and even 800 A^ears 

 are as little elevated above the sea as at the era of their 

 foundation, being now close to the water's edge. The lowest 

 part of Dantzic was no higher than the mean level of the 

 sea in the year 1000 ; and after 8 centuries its relative posi- 



emams 



Several of the examples of the gain of land and shallowing 

 of the sea pointed out bj Celsius, and afterwards bj Linnaeus, 



embraced 



sediment 



sufficiently 



between changes due to these causes and such as would arise 

 if the waters of the ocean itself were diminishing. Many 

 large rivers descending from a mountainous country, at the 

 head of the Gulf of Bothnia, enter the sea charged with sand, 

 mud, and pebbles ; and it was said that in these places the 

 low land had advanced rapidly, especially near Torneo. At 

 Piteo also, i a mile had been gained in 45 years ; at Luleo,t 

 no less than 1 mile in 28 years ; facts which might all be 

 admitted consistently with the assumption that the level of 

 the Baltic has remained unchanged, like that of the Adriatic, 

 during a period when the plains of the Po and the Adige have 

 greatly extended their area. 



It was also alleged that certain insular rocks, once entirely 

 covered with water, had at length protruded themselves above 

 the waves, and grown, in the course of a century and a half, 



The following attempt was made to ex- 



In the Baltic, large erratic 



to be 8 feet high. 



nomenon 



blocks, as w^ell as sand and smaller stones which lie on shoals, 

 are liable every year to be frozen into the ice, where the sea 

 freezes to the depth of 5 or 6 feet. 



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* For a full account of tho Celsian 



t Pitio and Luleo are spelt, in manv 



controversy, we may refer our readers English maps, Pitea and Lulea, but the 

 to Yon HofF, Geschichte, &c. vol. i. a is not sounded in the Swedish diph- 

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