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Ch. XXXI.] 



EISE OF LAND IN SWEDEN. 



191 



towns, all along the coast of Scania, there are streets below 

 the high-water level of the Baltic, and in some cases below 

 the level of the lowest tide, Thns, when the wind is high at 

 Malmo, the water overjflows one of the present streets, and 

 some years ago some excavations showed an ancient street 

 in the same place 8 feet lower, and it was then seen that 

 there had been an artificial raising of the ground, doubtless 

 in consequence of that subsidence. There is also a street at 

 Trelleborg, and another at Skanor, a few inches below high- 

 water mark, and a street at Ystad is exactly on a level with 

 the sea, at which it could not have been originally built. 



When we cross from the Gulf of Bothnia to the coast 

 north of Gothenburg, we find that the opinion still prevails 

 there, as it did in the days of Celsius, among the fishing and 

 seafaring inhabitants, that there is a slow sinking of the sea 

 going on; so that rocks, both on the shore of the 



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more and more 



If this conclusion be confirmed by future observation, the 



breadth of the tract from WNW. to ESE., which k 

 must exceed 200 geographical miles, without includ: 

 bed of the two seas adjacent to the coasts. 



Hitherto we have confined our attention almost exe 

 to changes of level in historical times 3 but we m 



enquire what geological proofs exist of the sojourn of the 



sea on the land, at a very modern ' period, in those parts of 



move 



ment of elevation is in progress. 



In this case, the evidence is most satisfactory. ISTear 

 Uddevalla and the neighbouring coastland, we find upraised 



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deposits of shells belonging to species such as now live 

 the ocean ; while on the opposite or eastern side of Swede 

 near Stockholm, Gefle, and other places bordering the 

 Bothnian Gulf, there are analogous beds containing shells of 

 species characteristic of the Baltic. 



Von Buch announced in 1807, that he had discovered in 

 Norway and at Uddevalla in Sweden, beds of shells of 

 existing species, at considerable heights above the 



sea. 



time 



confirmed 



servation; and, according to Torell, deposits occur at 



