46 Tlie American Geologist. Jniy, i898 
thirty miles to the Limfjord at Aalborg, moraine drift covers 
the eastern half of this northmost part of Denmark, its highest 
hilltops being 300 to 440 feet above the sea level. The north- 
east boundary of the moraine belt is about two miles south- 
west of Frederikshavn, at a hight of about 100 feet; and with- 
in a mile farther southwest one ascends 200 feet, or more, 
upon typically morainic, irregularly grouped hills of till, con- 
taining abundant boulders, many of them granitic, up to three 
feet and occasionally five or six feet in diameter. As the un- 
derlying formations of Denmark comprise only Cretaceous 
and Tertiary strata, the granitic boulders are known to have 
come from the great Archaean region of Sweden and Norway. 
The contour of these hills and of all the country within the 
view for many miles westward and southward is wholly mo- 
rainic, presenting a multitude of irregular hills and ridges, 
which rise generally forty to seventy-five or one hundred feet 
above adjoining hollows and twice as much above the stream 
valleys. Nearly all the area is under cultivation, excepting 
occasionally a very bouldery knoll or hillside; and many of 
the farmhouses are quite picturesquely ensconced among the 
moraine hillocks or in partly wooded ravines. In a walk of 
some eight or ten miles upon this tract, I found its material al- 
most wholly till, everywhere having plentiful boulders, with 
very scanty kame gravel and sand, or none; but in many parts 
of the belt southward, it consists largely of kame deposits, 
usually in smooth massive hills similar to those of the prin- 
cipal terminal moraine on Long Island in its course east from 
Roslyn. Between Frederikshavn and the Limfjord the width 
of this compound moraine belt is fifteen to twenty miles. 
Continuing southward, this belt, diversified by frequent 
small lakes, occupies in general the eastern third or half of 
Denmark. It attains its greatest altitude in the broadly 
rounded hill named Ejer Bavnehoj, 564 feet above the sea, 
seen within two miles west of our railway and probably 200 
feet above it, a few miles southwest of Skanderborg. Drift 
covers nearly all the peninsula so deeply as to give no out- 
crops of the underlying formations; and west of the morainic 
till it is described as mostly stratified gravel and sand, in undu- 
lating swells and in plains sloping away from the moraine belt. 
Through Schleswig our railway, passing south from Lun- 
