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recalled the singular concentric mounds that overlie the terrace at 
the mouth of the old glacier valley of the Brora in Sutherlandshire. 
We walked along the north-east side of the fjord, and found the 
rocky declivity terraced with old sea^ margins, which ran along like 
ancient and ruined roadways. They occur up to perhaps 200 or 
250 feet above the sea-level, and are cut in the hard rock. They are 
covered with loose blocks, partly derived from the rocks around, but 
probably in part also transported from a higher part of the valley. 
On the beach we met with well ice-worn bosses of gneiss, slipping 
Fig. 9. — Section on beach at Nus Fjord. 
d Sandy-grey clay, Avith Tellina proxima, Saxicava rugosa, Astarte elliptica, Cyprina Islan- 
dica, &c. a Ice-Avorn gneissose rocks. 
beneath a grey sandy clay full of arctic shells — a conjunction 
which is closely paralleled by one on the shores of Loch Fyne. 
Fig. 10. — Section on beach at Ardmarnock, Loch Fyne. 
d Sandy-grej' clay, full of Tellina proxima, Astarte borealis^ Natica clausa, Cyprina Islan- 
dica (in fragments sometimes seven- tAvelfths of an inch thick) and other northern shells, 
c Finely striated red clay, Avithout shells, h Boulder-clay, a Ice-Avorn gneissose rocks. 
In each case the rocks are beautifully smoothed and grooved, and 
show that the ice which moulded them moved down the length of 
the inlet. To the north and east of the Jokuls Fjeld the ground 
becomes lower, and descends wholly below the snow-line. The hills 
that bound the Alten Fjord, instead of rising into serrated peaks, 
like the higher tracts to the south, have a well ice-worn aspect, and 
recall the hills of Can tyre, or the scenery of parts of the He- 
brides. Indeed, the whole of this northern district of Norway, from 
the Alten Fjord to beyond the North Cape, has the smoothed out- 
