158 FORESTRY OF NORWAY. 
tremity of it where it is slowly melting away, though con- 
tinuously replaced, like the lower fringe of the so-called 
‘Devil’s Table-Cloth ’ on Table Mountain, which has been 
spoken of, there drop and accumulate. We have many 
indications of such glacial action in Norway. 
It requires sometimes an experienced geologist to judge 
satisfactorily in regard to such deposits, and determine 
whether they be the products of glacial or of torrential 
action. Several discussions relative to the origin of large 
deposits in France are cited by me in a volume entitled 
Réboisement in France* (pp. 101-117, &c.) In regard to the 
deposits in Finland there is little room for reasonable 
doubt that they are moraines, and not what in France are 
designated lis de dejection from torrents. 
Norway abounds in similar indications of glacial 
action in the ages to which these are referred, and many 
tourists have recorded their impressions of the appearances 
presented by the glaciers and snow-fields which still 
exist. 
The indications of such glacial action—carrying off 
boulders and stones from mountain tops and mountain 
sides, transporting them to the extremity of the glacier, 
however remote, and depositing them there—are to be 
found everywhere, But the indications of this action, 
according to the authority I have cited, are various. 
They consist of striae, or somewhat parallel markings, 
on the surfaces of the rocks, of moraines, or heaps of 
stones and gravels, of erratic deposits, of beds of clay, 
and of débris of marine shells. The continental ice, at the 
time of some of these deposits, must have covered the 
whole Scandinavian peninsula, And it is supposed that 
* Réboisement in France ; or, Records of the Re-planting of the Alps, the Cevennes, 
and the Pyrenees wlth trees, herbage, and bush, with a view to arresting and prevent- 
ing the destructive consequences of torrents: in which are given a résume of Surell’s 
study of Alpine torrents, and of the literature of France relative to Alpine torrents, and 
remedial measures which have been proposed for adoption to prevent the disastrous 
consequences following from them,—translations of dc ts and enact its, show- 
ing what legislative and executive measures have been taken by the Government of 
France In cor tion with rébot tas a remedial application inst destructive 
torrents,—and details in regard to the past, present, and prospective aspects of the 
work.—London : Henry 8. King & Co. 1876. 
