evidence of much more recent elevation has been seen by some ; 
but this is not quite clear. 
To cross to Sweden. The beds of Uddevalla* show an up- 
heaval to 200 feet since most of the shells now living on the 
coast of Norway had arrived. 
And in the recent voyage of Nordenskiold he records in 
many places, in still more northern latitudes, clear marks 
of elevation in geologically recent times up to at least 
500 feet.f 
This is the period that is of most importance in our present 
inquiry ; and we learn, putting the evidence all together, that 
after Glacial times the land went down along the Cambro-Scan- 
dinavian range of mountains, and the encroaching sea used up 
old Glacial beds ; that it took a long time before the arctic 
forms of life that haunted the shores of the old Glacial land 
were driven north, and temperate life came in. The moun- 
tain range went down far lower than it stands at present, and 
then a reversed movement commenced, and all the land has 
been coming up, with interruptions, ever since, and from an 
unknown depth has been again raised up in places to at least 
some 1,800 feet. It is probable that since Glacial times the 
land was much more extensive than it is now, and that this was 
due to elevation, not of the mountain rauges, but of the sea- 
board lands. W e see this, not so much in the fact of the sunk 
forests, as in the size and character of the trees in them ; for 
they are of far more luxuriant growth than we now find so 
near the sea. 
Now we are closing round the country of which we most 
desire to learn the history, namely, that drained by the large 
rivers along whose banks we have evidence of man's sojourn in 
palaeolithic times. There are a few cases where, it is said, 
implements of that date have been found along the borders of 
the Lake District, and where the forms of mammals usually 
associated in those early times with man have been preserved. 
But, as a rule, they are absent from the gravels there; and to 
explain this fact some holdj that they were all pre- Glacial, or 
earlier than the latest glaciers, and that they have all been 
swept away by ice. I cannot accept this view in its present 
form. Man may have followed hard upon the receding glaciers, 
when in the latest period of their existence the climate was so 
far ameliorated, owing to depression of the mountain ranges. 
* Lyell, Pliil. Trans cxxv., and Ant. Man , p. 63. 
t The Arctic voyages of Adolf Eric Nordeoskiold. Lond. 1879. P.324. 
X Tiddeman, Brit. Assoc. Report. 
