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point in their descent towards the long heaps of debris at the bot- 
tom. In short, in this lonely uninhabited spot, the activity and 
ceaselessness of the wasting powers of nature come before the tra- 
veller with a memorable impressiveness. The wide snow-field that 
seems to lie so sluggish and still among the distant mists, is yet 
seen to be in slow but constant motion, pushing its ice-streams to- 
wards the valleys, and grinding down the hard rocks over which it 
moves. Frosts, rain, and springs have scarped the shoulders of 
every mountain, and poured long trains of rubbish down its sides. 
And if this can be now done under the present climate of Norway, 
how much more powerful must the abrasion have been when the 
ice, in place of being arrested on the brow of the mountain, filled 
up the fjord, and pushed its way into the Arctic Sea. 
From the open mouth of the Kvenangs Fjord, in the passage be- 
tween Skjaervb and the Jokul, the outline of the neighbouring 
land is well seen. The steep, serrated ridge of the Kvenangs Tin- 
derne shows its tiny glaciers nestling in corries both on its northern 
and southern sides. The sides of the Kvenangs Fjord are ice- 
moulded and striated in the direction of the inlet, and its islands 
are only large roclies moutonnees. In looking back at the moun- 
tainous tract of the Jokul’s Fjeld, we see that it is another snowy 
table-land jutting out as a promontory into the Arctic Sea, deeply 
trenched with long, narrow fjords, and pushing glaciers down every 
glen and hollow that descends from the plateau of snow. 
We visited the north-western and northern sides of this snow- 
field, boating up the Bergs Fjord to the hamlet of that name, and 
after ascending to its glaciers, continuing our excursion by boat 
into the Nus Fjord. (See fig. 5.) In ascending the South Bergs 
Fjord, we found the gneissic and schistose rocks polished and 
striated from east to west, which is the direction of the inlet, and 
in turning into the North Bergs Fjord, which runs nearly at a 
right angle to the other, the strise were seen to turn out of the 
Lang Fjord and bend northwards through the northern limb of the 
Bergs Fjord. At the hamlet of Bergsfjord these ice-mouldings 
are especially well shown, and there, as well as along many parts 
of the fjord, occur lines of rock-terraces, often strewed with quanti- 
ties of angular blocks. Two of the most marked of these horizon- 
tal bars have an elevation of about 50 and 150 feet respectively. 
