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glaciers of Svartisen. In this excursion we started from the coast, 
amid islands, all moulded, like those of the west of Scotland, 
by the ice of the glacial period, and we ended among rocks on 
which the present glaciers are inscribing precisely the same mark- 
ings. One of the first features which arrested attention was the 
contrast between the smoothed, ice-worn surface of the lower 
grounds and the craggy, scarped outlines of tlie mountain crests. 
Fig. 1. — Map of the Neighbourhood of the Holands Fjord (Munch). 
This was especially marked along the northern side of the Grlom- 
mens Fjord, where the ice-worn rocks form a distinct zone along 
the side of the rough, craggy hills. To the north of Melovaerthis 
ice- worn belt was estimated by aneroid to rise about 200 feet above 
the sea. Its smoothed rocks are abundantly rent along lines of joint 
and other divisional planes ; their ice-worn aspect must thus be 
imperceptibly fading away. The rough rocks above them some- 
times show traces of smoothed surfaces, as if they too had suffered 
from an older glaciation, of which the records are now all hut 
obliterated. The line of division between the belt of rocks which 
have been smoothed by ice, and those which have been roughened 
and scarped by atmospheric waste, slopes gently upward in the 
direction of the central snow-fields of the interior. While at 
Melbvaer it seemed to rise only about 200 feet above the sea ; 
at Fondalen, twenty-five or thirty miles inland, it mounts to a 
