ME. H. AY. MONCKTON ON THE 



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wide, the opposite flank of which is by no means precipitous; and 

 I suggest that this waterworn rock and the kettle date from a time 

 when a glacier filled this part of 

 the valley, and are due to a river 

 which, in a more confined space 

 than the present wide valley, either 

 flowed through, or under the ice, 

 or between it and the rock. On the 

 side of the valley in which we find 

 the giants' kettle there have been 

 great post-Glacial landslips : masses 

 of rock, angular and unwaterworn, 

 now lying at the loot of the cliff 

 and in the water before it. Possibly 

 the glacier left this steep wall in 

 an unstable condition, and when 

 the ice melted it gave way. 



It is possible that the part of 

 the valley with which I am dealing 

 may be a deep hollow in the rock ; 

 but, if so, it is largely filled with 

 gravel and sand spread out like an 

 alluvial flat and covered with peat, 

 and, for the rest, the river which 

 keeps to the western side of the 

 valley for the most part, spreads 

 out in places into sheets of water. 

 Mounds of rock project here and 

 there. 



In any case, there is a great 

 accumulation of material which 

 must, I think, have come down 

 the Vejtestrands Lake when it was 

 occupied by a glacier ; it is pro- 

 bable, indeed, that the foot of the 

 ice stood for a time near the rock- 

 barrier at the end of the lake, and 

 that the alluvial flat is composed 

 of moraine-material spread out by 

 water in front of the ice. 



The end of the section of the 

 valley that we are now consider- 

 ing is, as I have said, a big mound 

 which stands out in the middle of 

 the valley. The river passes round 

 the right side of the mound, and 

 enters the Hafslo Lake. The 

 mound, which is partly rock and 

 partly moraine, joins the land on the left or northern side of the 

 valley. I suggest that the glacier of which I have been speaking 



