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AiiKino- the results of the investigation the foliovvino- luay be. 
mentioned as being of especial interest for eoniparisoii with the 
conditions in Nortli America. 
All tin' oliservations evidently relate to one single system of 
upheaval, with the maximum uplift in the central part of the 
Scandinavian peninsula, ahmg a line east of the watershed, or 
nearly where the ice-sheet of the last glaciation reached its great- 
est thickness. Here the land must have been upheaved some- 
what more than a thousand feet (mori- than :!(Mt meters), aiul 
around this centia- the is<»bases are grouped in conc«'Utric circU^s, 
showing a tolerably regular decre:is«' in hight in every direction 
toward the i)eripheral parts (»f the region, until the line for zero 
is H'ached. ftiitside of which n<» sign whatever of upheaval is to 
be found. 
The consideraltle hight at which the uppermost marine marks 
are found, and the places where tliey occur, in the central parts 
of the land, show at once that no local attracti<»n of the land ice 
could luive Iteen sullicicnt t<» raise the water to any such tiinount, 
had the ice been many times as thick and extensive as it i)rol»u- 
l»ly was ev«'n at its maximum. Such an ex|)lanation sihmuh less 
possible, as there could lie vi'rv little room for any attracting; 
land ice when the sea covered the parts of the laiul nu'utioned 
above. 
lint as no local changes of the sea lev«'l can account for the 
phiuionienon. so it is also impossible to explain it l»y the gen- 
eral oscillations of the sea. either from the one hcmisplu're to 
the other, produccil i»y changes in the situation of the ct-nter of 
gravity of the earth — according to the assumption of Adlu'-mar 
and Ci'oll — or by oscillations to and from the ('(juator cause<l by 
changes in the rotation of the earth, as has been suppos<>d by 
Swedt'uborg and Suess. If this theory were true, all the shore- 
lines w<udd slope in a single direction, but as they in fact slope 
as well to the south as to the west, north, and east, it is eviclent 
liiat the phenomenon must be explained bv a real risinir of the 
land. 
Moi'eover the regiiui of upheaval is practically al»out tlie same 
as that of the last ghu-iation ; especially is it worthy of notice, 
thai the maximum of both seems to have occupied alxuit tlu; 
same place. 
Still more remarkable is the (•oint-idence (jf the uplifted area 
