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EISE OF LAND IN SAVEDEN. 



[Ch. XXXI. 



Swedish coast near Gothenburg, in 1834. Among the former 



seemed 



dicate a fall of the water of about 9 inches in 32 years^ which 

 would give a rise of the land of between 2 and 3 feet in a 



marks 



hood implied a smaller change of level. A line which I myself 

 cut on a rock in the island of Gulholmen, off Oregrund, on 

 the west coast^ was found to be only 3 inches higher above 



made 



com 



marks. Lord Selkirk came 



the conclusion, that, notwithstanding the absence of lunar 

 tides both in the Baltic and on the west coast of Sweden 



^ , there is so much fluctuation in the sea- 

 level from day to day, owing to the action of the wind and 

 other causes, that the observations of a casual visitor are 

 of no real value in determining the average water-level."^ 



After a review of all that has been said and published on 

 this subject since the commencement of the present century, 

 I am inclined to believe, with the pilots, fishermen, and 

 eno^ineers, that a slow alteration in the relative level of land 

 and sea is taking place along certain parts of the Swedish 

 coast. This notion is not merely entertained bj the inha- 

 bitants of those localities where rivers are carrying down 

 sediment into the sea, but prevails equally in districts where 



miles 



water. 



mind 



Cattegat, there are no tides in the Gulf of Bothnia. It is 

 only when particular winds have prevailed for several days 

 in succession, or at certain seasons when there has been an 

 unusually abundant influx of river-water, or when these 



combined, that this sea is m 



2 or 3 



feet above its standard level. 



moreover 



remarl 



elation of slight changes in the relative level of land and 

 water. It has often been said, that there are two coasts. 



* Lord Selkirk 'On some Sea-water Level Marks on the Coast of Sweden. 

 Quart. Geol. Joiirn. 1867, p. 187. 



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