H 



■^X', 



e 



many 



II 



•iU 



pro- 



5 of the 

 brouglit 



ckliolm. 



Maeler, 

 W been 



^f ty 



mdtoa 

 '■5, from 



eastern 

 pnfora 

 ^ (^h tk 

 i-j even 

 pxisfe 





jniist 

 places 



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Cii. XXXL] 



EISE OF LAND IN NOEWAY. 



195 



According to the assumed average rate of rise in Sweden 



(about 40 inclies in a centurj), we should be obliged to 

 suppose that this island had been 3 feet 8 inches below hi<Th- 



mark 

 moiiasterj. 



Keilliau 



former 



H 



level 



Norway, 



combining them 



own, has 



some 



modern 



(that is to saj 



within the period of the actual testaceous fauna), 



evident. 



from 



very 



North 



are so 



of Vardhuus, has been gradually upraised, and on the south- 

 east coast the elevation has amounted to more than 600 fp^t. 

 The marks which denote the ancient coast-lines 

 nearly horizontal, that the deviation from horizc 

 although the measurements have been made at a great 

 number of points, is too small to be appreciated. 



Morerecentlj (1844), however, it appears from the researches 

 of M. Bravais, member of the French scientific commission 

 of the North, that in the 

 most northerly part of JSTorway 



Finmark, the 



of upraised ancient sea-coast, one above the other, which are 



them im 



miles 



direction as to show that the ancient shores have undergone 



amount 



inland/^ 



ance 



The diiferent heights at which horizontal raised beaches 

 coptaimng recent shells have been observed along the western 

 and northern coasts of Norway, hare been supposed to prove 

 the suddenness of the upheaval of the land at successive 



rather that the elevatory force has been intemuittent in its 

 act,on, and that there have been long pauses in the process 



p. 534. M. Bravais' observations were 



his ' Tracings of N. of Europp,' p. 208. 



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