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locality is not iiioie than can be melted during the succeeding 
summer. It is in accordance with this explanation that the snow- 
line is 1000 feet lower on the sea face of the Folgefond than it is on 
the land side or on the Hardanger Fjeld. At Bergen, Professor 
llaustein says the thermometer seldom falls below' zero, so that 
snow and ice are not very common. Professor James Forbes‘S 
remarks, tliat the rise of the snow-line “ depends partly on the same 
cause as the rise of the snow-line in Asia ; but in great measure 
also on the greater effect, towards the interior, of the solar rays, 
which, at Bergen and on the coast generally, are obscured by clouds 
and fogs.” It is obvious that both these conditions depend on the 
discharge of moisture from the rain-clouds near the coast. 
F’rom derkin the route lay through the Foldal to Lille Elvedal. 
.iVt Dalen Primula sfrirfa wiis .seen in great abundance in all the 
meadows. Ca/ama^/mrfm laji/xmlra w'as also noted. The descent 
into the valley above Dalen, is through loose sand, ilown an incline 
of about 200 feet. Terraces of sand and loose gravel occur frei[uently 
at high elevations, often GOO to 700 feet. Towanls the lower end of 
the valley these become more numerous, sometimes in a series one 
above the other. The low’est one, through which the Folda river 
has cut its w'ay, forms a perpendicular cliff of about 100 feet, the 
upper half of which is pure sand in thin strata, the lower part 
being composed of clay and boulders. Here and there, in the centre 
of the valley, may be seen good sized moraines with huge ‘perched’ 
rocks. The general appearance of the terraces suggests the idea 
that the sand must have been deposited by marine action, and that 
the beds of immense thickness were subsequently cut through by 
glaciers, and the valley deepened by erosion. It is impossible, 
I think, to believe that sand of such depth, and so distinctly 
stratified, can have had any other origin than this; and it points 
strongly to the deposit having taken place in the pre-glacial period, 
as the submergence must have extended nearly to the level of the 
Dovrefjeld. Anyhow', there is here one of the most remarkable 
formations to be seen in Norway, and one well worthy the attention 
of geologists. 
In concluding these fragmentary Wayside Notes I would add 
the following notice, copied in 1874, as an amusing illustration of 
a Norwegian idea of English ‘ Sport.’ 
* ‘Norway and its Glaciers,’ p. 215. 
