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the roches moutonnées are well defined, and show striz, ruts, and grooves, 
which point E. 35°-40° N., evidently the work of ice which overflowed from 
Skaalefiord. The dividing-ridge between Skaalefiord and Gidtheviig, at the 
place we crossed, was 410 feet high, but the glaciation swept up to within a 
short distance of the hill-tops. Skaalefiord itself has brimmed with glacier-ice, 
the great body of which flowed down the fiord, as the highly abraded seaward 
slopes on both sides clearly attest. The glaciation is particularly well seen at 
Tofte Naes—the whole of that peninsula exhibiting every evidence of severe 
glaciation. The direction of ice-flow, as shown by the roches moutonnées, was 
towards S.S.E. The west coast of Osterde, opposite Kollefiord, also gives 
evidence of having been abraded in a south-east direction. 
I have no doubt that glacial striz might be found in other parts of Stromée 
and Osterée which we did not visit. In the neighbourhood of Qvalvig, for 
example, glacial phenomena are probably well developed. But the localities 
we examined sufficed for our purpose, and supplied abundant evidence to show 
that these islands had been glaciated by a local ice-sheet. We found not the 
slightest indication that they had ever been impinged upon by ice flowing from 
the north. 
The evidence obtained in the smaller islands served further to establish this 
conclusion. We visited Borde and found that Bordevigfiord was abraded in a 
S.S.E. direction—in other words, the ice had flowed down the fiord. We 
boated along a portion of the coast-line of Kalsde and Kunde, but the other 
islands, Widerée, Svinéde, and Fuglée, we did not approach. We could see, 
however, that the higher parts were extremely rugged and quite destitute of 
any appearance of glaciation; and from the analogy supplied by Borée, I have 
no doubt that their lower portions will give evidence of a local ice-flow. 
Naalsde, opposite Thorshavn, appears smoothed off to its summit; and 
the seaward slopes of Waagée opposite Westmannshavn are glaciated in 
the direction of Westmannshavnfiord. But I could not be sure whether 
the ice in this fiord had moved to north-west or south-east. It is most 
probable, however, that the ice-flow was in both directions—in the northern 
reach going towards north-west, and in the southern section to east and south- 
east. The rugged mountain of Stoiatind in Waagoée soars above the limit of 
glaciation. 
The direction of glaciation in Hestée we did not determine, but it will doubt- 
less be found to agree with that of the hill-slopes on the Stromée side of Hestée- 
fiord, which, so far as I could make out, was towards S.S.E. Unfortunately, 
thick fog prevailed when we traversed the district between Thorshavn and 
Kirkeboe, and we were not fortunate enough to find any striz at the latter 
place. 
At Skaapen, in the north of Sandée, the ground is highly glaciated, but 
