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again the coasting steamer at Melovaer, proceeded northwards. 
Between Melovaer and Bodd, the higher mountains have wonder- 
fully craggy and spiry outlines, only their lower parts showing 
the smoothed contour of glaciation. But where the coast hills 
sank, as towards a fjord or bay, the ice-moulded forms could be 
traced to a greater height. To the north of Bodd, the contrast be- 
tween the sharp weather-worn peaks above, and the flowing ice- 
worn liummocks and hill sides below, is singularly startling. Prin- 
cipal Forbes, who gave a characteristically faithful drawing to illus- 
trate this feature, places the upper limit of glaciation at from 1500 
to 2000.* We should have estimated it to be considerably lower. 
Through narrow kyles and intricate sounds, reminding one at every 
turn of detached portions of West Highland or Hebridean scenery, 
the steamer slowly wound its way, and then aeross the Vest Fjord 
to the Lofodden Islands. The weather now unfortunately proved 
unfavourable for geological observation. In sailing through the 
Rafte Sund, we saw what looked like moraines at the mouths 
of some of the valleys, and the lines of moraine terraces continued 
as marked as ever. Well ice- worn rocks were also observed at the 
openings of some of the valleys, but we were rather impressed with the 
general ruggedness and absence of glaciation among the Lofoddens. 
To the north of Tromso lies the island of Kingvatso, noticed by 
Mr E. Chambers.! The moraine which he describes as damming 
up the circular sheet of water, whence the island takes its name, 
really coincides with the line of the higher of the two strongly 
marked terraces or sea-margins of this part of the Norwegian coast. 
It thus illustrates the history of the moraine and terrace, below the 
smaller glacier at Fondalen. It was further interesting to mark 
that the glacier of Eingvatso, partially hidden under snow, lies in 
a hollow or corry surrounded with precipices, and quite cut off from 
any snow-field. The accumulation of snow in the corry itself must 
thus be sufficient to give rise to the glacier. In looking at this 
island, I was again forcibly reminded of the history of the glaciers 
of Tweedsmuir and Loch Skene, where, on dimples of the hill tops, 
and in deep cliff-encircled recesses, there must have gathered snow 
enough to form streams of ice, which caught and carried on their 
Norway and its Glaciers, p. 58. 
t Tracings of the North of Europe, p. 145. 
