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EISE OF LAND IN SWEDEN. 



[Ch. XXXI. 



small 



a fir-seedling, and a few blades of grass, attest that tlie shoal 

 has at length been fairly changed into drj land. Thousands 

 of wooded islands around show the greater alterations which 



can work. In the course of centuries, also, the spaces 



time 



may 



become grassy plains encircled bj heights well clothed with 

 lofty firs. This last stej) of the process, by which long fiords 

 and narrow channels, once separating wooded islands are 



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of living witnesses on several parts of the coast. 



It was admitted on all liands wlien I visited Sweden in 

 1834, that the supposed change in the relative level of sea 



means ^omor on at a uniform 



uniform 



and Scania, or the southermost part of Sweden, places 

 distant from each other more than 1,000 miles. 



The 



North 



but no accurate scientific proof of this fact has yet been 



obtained. 



miles north of Stockholm, the move 



may possibly, as before stated, amount 



a century, whereas at 



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it can hardly exceed 6 



inches. 16 miles to the south-west of Stockholm, at 

 Sodertelje, the land seems to have been quite stationary 

 during the last century. Proceeding still farther south, the 

 upward movement seems to give place to one in an opposite 

 direction. In proof of this fact, Professor Nilsson has 

 remarked, in the first place, that there are no elevated beds 

 of recent marine shells in Scania like those farther to the 

 north. Secondly, Linnaeus, with a view of ascertaining 



whether 



from the 



measur 



sea and a large stone near Trelleborg. This same stone 

 was, in 1836, a hundred feet nearer the water's edge than 

 in Linna3us's time, or 87 years before. Thirdly, there is 

 also a submerged peat moss, consisting of land and fresh- 

 water plants, beneath the sea at a point to which no peat 

 could have been drifted down by any river. Fourthly, and 

 what is still more conclusive, it is found that in seaport 



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