150 The American Geologist. September, i898 
of ascent, and nine or ten others higher, l)cfore reaching the 
level of the sea-clifYs of rock.* 
Remembering these published observations, I wished to 
see Trondhjem, not only on account of its historical interest 
as the ancient capital of Norway, but also for personal exam- 
ination of these Late Glacial shorelines. Four days, July 
17th to the 2ist, 1897, were spent there, at the latitude of 63° 
25', about 210 miles south of the Arctic circle, this being the 
most northern part of our journeying. The temperature was 
delightful, warm but not hot; and the very clear air permitted 
extensive views from the adjoining high hills, looking far to 
the north and northeast along the great Trondhjem fjord, 
which takes its name from this city built on its southern shore 
at the mouth of the river Nid. During the time of our stay 
the city was thronged with its 30,000 people and many visitors, 
in the festivities of celebrating the nine hundredth anniversary 
of its foundation. King Oscar arrived from Stockholm for 
this celebration on the 17th, and remained three days. Though 
it was a month after the summer solstice, the days were still 
very long, the sun rising soon after two o'clock and setting 
a quarter before ten. On the evening of the 20th the bright 
and long continuing sunset illumination of the clouds was 
magnificent. The preceding evening I had returned very 
late from a walk of about twenty miles, and found that at mid- 
night the twilight was sufficient for reading a book or news- 
paper. 
The shoreline mentioned as worn in the rock (gneiss, mica 
schist, diabase, etc.) of this vicinity, marking probably a pro- 
longed stage of the depression of the land at the time of the 
final retreat and departure of the ice-sheet, is best exhibited 
on the east slope of the rugged, mostly wooded hill named 
Gjeitfjeld, which rises steeply from the southwest shore of 
the fjord. In several places along a distance of about a mile, 
the more outstanding portions of this hillside, which is seen in 
full view from Trondhjem, looking west, are eroded into pre- 
*Nature, XXXII, 555, Oct. 8th, 1885. This paper gives the altitude 
of the "upper line" of the raised sea-cliffs of rock as 580 feet, referring 
probably to the upper part of the cliffs. Their base, where the rock was 
undercut by waves and floating ice at the old sea level of the Champlain 
epoch or closing part of the Ice age, is 160 meters (525 feet) above the 
sea, as shown on the contouied map of Trondhjem and its environs pub- 
lished there by A. Bruns, in 1885. 
