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J. JR. Dakyns — High-level Terraces in Nonvay. 
kighest of tkese is more tkan 500 feet above tke sea (but a lands- 
man is a bad judge of beigbts and distances across water). Tbis 
year (1872) I found sands and gravels, apparently precisely similar 
to tbe lower terraces, at Haugen, on the watersbed as you cross 
from tbe Stör Fjord to tbe Nord Fjord, at tbe beigbt of 1100 feet 
above the sea. Tbis sand I judged by tbe eye to reacb as bigb as 
1200 feet ; and my impression is tbat it was merely a part of a 
terrace stretcbing for a great distance along tbe bill-side well over 
tbe watersbed. 
But tbe best instance I know of bigb-level terraces, similar in all 
respects (except tbe all-important one of position) to tbose acknow- 
ledged marine ones at tbe beads of fjords, is in tbe Gudbrandsdal 
and on tbe watersbed between tbat dale and tbe Romsdal. Tbe 
traveller going nortb ascends between Laurgaard and Broendbaugen 
by a rocky defile to a rolling plateau covex'ed witb sand-bills 
arranged in irregulär mounds. Just before reacbing Dovre on tbis 
plateau, tbe road crosses a bridge, wbere a stream from tbe west 
joins tbe main river. Tbis stream issues from a narrow glen, by 
wbicb a road leads to Yaage, and tbe moutb of tbis glen, just where it 
opens out upon tbe main valley, is occupied by terraces of sand and 
gravel precisely similar to tbose at tbe beads of fjords ; and tbe top 
of tkese terraces coincides witb a distinct mark, whicb runs bori- 
zontally along tbe bill-side as far as tbe eye can reacb, tili it is lost 
to sigbt round tbe gable end at tbe descent above Laurgaard. This 
mark might, were tbe beds flat, be taken for an escarpment; but 
it is notbing of tbe sort. Tbe beds are bigbly inclined, and tbe mark 
runs borizontally along tbe solid rock for iniles across tbe bedding. 1 
On tbe opposite, or east side of tbe valley, is a corresponding 
feature, apparently at tbe same beight above the stream. Dovre is 
marked on tbe pocket map of tbe “ Reise Ruter i Norge ” as 1500 
feet above the sea ; and it is not much higher than tbe bridge. 
Tbe top of tbe terrace is by aneroid between 400 and 500 feet 
above tbe bridge. Tbis would make it about 2000 feet above 
the sea. Judging by tbe eye, it reacbes very nearly, if not quite, as 
liigh as Dombaas, 2 wbicb is given on the map as 2100 feet above 
the sea. Tbis horizontal water-margin can be traced along tbe 
west side of the valley at least as far nortb as Holset, wbere a large 
valley coming in fi’om tbe west shows sand-terx - aces. The main 
valley is very flat all tbe way from Holset to Lesjivaerk aixd 
Molmen, between wbicb places is the lalte flowing both ways, and 
tkerefore on the very watersbed. The terrace and its accompanying 
water-mark are tkerefore up to tbe level of tbe watersbed, if tbey 
are not actually higher. 3 Tbis is a point wbicb can only be settled 
by a proper examination of tbe ground : and a very impoi'tant point 
it is, for it makes all tbe differeixce between tbe terrace being due to 
marine action and to tbe waters of an ice-danxmed lake. If the top 
1 The Norwegian Geological Map marks the beds as striking directly across the 
main valley, but no amount of dip is given. 
2 For any one wisliing to make an extended examination of the country, Dombaas 
would be very good head-quarters. There is an excellent inn there. 
3 From this point I have departed from the text of my original manuscript in 
Order to indicate the two possible Solutions that appear open to us. 
