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Ch. XXXI.] 



BISE OF LAND IN SWEDEN. 



187 



since tlie country was inliabited by man. In digging a 

 canal, in 1819, at Sodertelje, about sixteen miles to the 

 south of Stockholm, to unite Lake Maeler with the Baltic, 

 marine strata, containing fossil shells of Baltic species, were 

 passed through. At a depth of about 60 feet, they came 

 down upon what seems to have been a buried fishing-hut, 

 constructed of wood in a state of decomposition, which soon 

 crumbled away on exposure to the air. The lowest part, 

 however, which had stood on a level with the sea, was in a 



. On the floor of this hut 

 was a rude fireplace, consisting of a ring of stones, and 

 within these were cinders and charred wood. On the out- 

 side lay boughs of the fir, cut as with an axe, with the 



more 



leaves or needles still attached. 



It seems impossible to 



imag-inin 



more 



re-elevation. During the period of submergence, the hut 



marl 



under which not only the hut, but several vessels also were 

 found, of a very antique form, and having their timbers 

 fastened together by wooden pegs instead of nails.' ^ 



Loven, Erdmann, Norden- 



The investiorations of MM 



my 



have on the whole tended to confirm the idea previously 

 entertained, that some changes are now going on in the 

 relative level of land and sea in certain parts of the Swedish 

 coast, but they incline to the opinion that they are local. 

 With a view of accurately determining the reality of the 

 movement, and its amount and direction, they have insti- 

 tuted a regular series of annual observations, which, how- 

 ever, have not yet been continued long enough to lead to 

 positive results. 



Lord Selkirk in 1866 re-examined many of the marks 

 which I had seen, both in the Gulf of Bothnia and on the 



* See my paper, before referred to, 

 Phil. Trans. 1835, part i. pp. 8, 9. At- 

 tempts have been since made to explain 

 away the position of this hut by con- 

 jecturing that a more ancient trench had .,^....«,« ,, ,ae 

 been previously dug here, which had be- explain the facts. 



come filled up in time by sand drifted 

 by the wind. The engineers who super- 

 intended the works in 1819, and with 

 whom I conversed, had considered every 

 hypothesis of the kind, but could not so 



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