1892 - 93 .] Dr Munro on a Eemarhable Glacier-Lake. 
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and (2) of a descriptive article on the subject which recently 
appeared in the Bergen News. 
The Kembidalsvand is a sheet of water, roughly oval in shape, 
extending in a north-eastern direction for rather more than a mile 
in length, and a maximum breadth of three-quarters of a mile (see 
sketch map). The glacier — an offshoot from the extensive snow- 
field known as the Hardanger-Jokul — comes down by a rocky bed, 
and finally terminates in the lake. About a mile and a half from 
its lower end, and on the right side, there rises, somewhat abruptly, 
the mountain called Lure-Nut (or Lure-Peak), which presents a 
steep projecting front to the glacier. Immediately to the east of 
this mountain there is the entrance to a deep narrow ravine, only 
about 200 yards wide at its mouth, but which runs northwards, 
with an irregular breadth, for a couple of miles or so. The direction 
of this ravine is thus at right angles to that of the movement of the 
glacier, and the ice rises in front of it in the form of a great dam. 
In the bed of this ravine are two small ponds, the upper of which 
is on a higher level, and is connected with the lower by a small 
waterfall. Above these ponds the ravine, which appears to be here 
less rocky, is drained by a small stream falling into the upper pond. 
The snowfield which feeds the glacier rises, in the form of a dreary 
circular plateau, from 9 to 10 miles in diameter, to the height of 
6530 feet. The above-described ravine lies at an intermediate point 
along the route of the glacier, and has an elevation of about 5000 
feet ; but the exact height of its floor above the level of the Rem- 
bidalsvand I have not been able to determine with accuracy. It 
must, however, be considerable, amounting, at least, to several hundred 
feet. These topographical details will enable you to understand 
the following extracts from the article in the Bergen News already 
referred to ; — 
“In front of these pond-lakes the glacier pushes itself in a west- 
ward direction against the Lure-Peak, where it becomes broken np 
into immense fissures, and thence it continues its course to the 
Kembidalsvand, where large masses break away from it with such a 
frightful noise and splash as to be seen and heard from the adjacent 
Saeter. These masses of ice float in the lake during the whole 
summer, thus presenting in miniature the appearance of a polar sea 
with its icebergs. 
