AND CIRQUES IN NORWAY AND GREENLAND. 



169 



List of Lakes in the fjord-valleys with Terraces and Moraines in 



front of thern. 

















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Names of the lakes. 



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43 



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a 



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43 



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ft 



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boo t, 



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H O 03 





kilo- 



kilo- 



kilo- 



met res. 



metres. 



metres. 



metres. 





metres. 



metres. 



metres. 











Horningdalsvand ... 



7 



28 



58 



54 



486 



432 



71 T. 



Bredeimsvand 



5 



18 



23 



56 



273 



217 



71 T. 



Stryenvand 



7-5 



16 



23 



25 



198 



173 



? 



Aardalsvand 



1-5 



10 



8 



5 



186 



181 



40 T. 



Loeu vand 



25 

 2 



3 

 4 



115 



5 



3 

 11 



12 



4 



13 



7 



88 

 90 

 53 

 37 



133 

 120 

 104 



90 



45 

 30 

 51 

 53 



? 

 136 M. 



88 M. 

 65 M. 



Sandvenvand 



Houkelivand 





Gravensvand 



1-8 



4 



3 



29 



86 



57 



41 T. 



Oifjordvand 



1-8 



4 



4 



17 



75 



58 



107 T. 



Vasbygdvand 



6 



3 



2 



53 



67 



14 



108 T. 





1 



1-8 



1 



3 



34 



31 



24 T. 



The question of the manner of formation of these lakes remains. 

 From the numbers above we see that there is a remarkable sym- 

 metry in the occurrence of these lakes. The distance from the sea 

 varies from 1 to 7*5 kilometres ; no lake has a greater height than 

 90 metres, and they have near their lower end a moraine or a ter- 

 race. The bottoms of all the lakes are lower than the level of the 

 sea. Nine of them can be directly demonstrated to be rock-basins ; 

 near three of them the loose detritus of the terraces conceals the 

 rock in front of the lakes. 



Supposing these lakes to have existed before the Glacial epoch, 

 we must assume them to have been accidentally formed symmetrically 

 in all these fjord- valleys by forces for which we cannot account; 

 further, we must assume that the forces which impel glaciers down 

 the valley were in all these places accidentally strong enough to 

 bring the glaciers to the lower end of the lake. But, on the con- 

 trary, by regarding them as having been excavated by the glaciers 

 during the Glacial epoch, we can explain their mode of occurrence 

 and their symmetry. The lakes, that is the rock-basins, end close 

 to the moraines, because the situation of their valleys with regard to 

 the mountain-region supplying the glaciers is a symmetrical one ; 



