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EISE OF LAND IN SWEDEN. 



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assembla 



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those derived from a deposit in tlie ocean. The 

 absence also of oysters^ barnacles^ whelks, scallops^ limpets 

 (ostreayhalanuSyhuccinumypecten^patella)^^nd many other forms 

 abonnding alike in the sea near Uddevalla, and in the fos- 

 siliferons deposits of modern date on that coast, supplies an 

 additional negative character of the greatest value, distin- 

 o-uishino- assemblages of Baltic from those of oceanic shells. 



Now 



many 



localities near Stockholm, Upsala, and Gefle, and will pro- 

 bably be discovered everywhere around the borders of the 

 Bothnian Gulf; for I have seen similar remains brought 



marl resemblin 



utmost 



inland in 1835 was on the southern shores of Lake Maeler, 



miles from 



traced by Erdinann to Linde, at the head of a lake of that 

 name, to a distance of 130 miles west of Stockholm, and to a 

 heio'ht of about 230 feet above the sea. Hence it appears, from 



the distinct assemblage of fossil shells found on the eastern 

 and western coasts of Sweden, that the Baltic has been for a 



om 



intervening tract of land was once much narrower, even 

 after both seas had become inhabited by all the existing 



species of testacea. 



Whether anv of the land in Norway is now rising, must 



be determined 

 of recent species 



Marine fossil shells, 

 from inland places 



near Drontheim ; but Mr. Everest, in his ' Travels through 

 Norway,' informs us that the small island of Munkholm, 

 which is an insulated rock in the harbour of Drontheira, 

 affords conclusive evidence of the land having in that region 



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