. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . and carefullv examined the localities; and I have now-become so experienced that I can to a certainty pointout not only where one is to be found, but state withtolerable accuracy its depth and diameter; as also whetherit has been bored or worn, so to say, in the form of aright-hand or of a left-hand screw. If we observe thecurrent of a river, we find that on the one side all theeddies and vortices are found in the diiection of thestream; or, on one side right-hand edd
. The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries .. . and carefullv examined the localities; and I have now-become so experienced that I can to a certainty pointout not only where one is to be found, but state withtolerable accuracy its depth and diameter; as also whetherit has been bored or worn, so to say, in the form of aright-hand or of a left-hand screw. If we observe thecurrent of a river, we find that on the one side all theeddies and vortices are found in the diiection of thestream; or, on one side right-hand eddies, and on theother left-hand eddies and vortices. 332 THEIR ORIGIN. Mr. Keiller afterwards enters on a long dissertation asto the origin of tlie Elf - Grytor, and elucidates histheory with numerous illustrations ; hut his account, nowin my possession, interesting as it certainly is, is far toolong for insertion in these pages. At a future time,however, should this work he favourahly received hy thepuhlic, and another edition he required, it may be thatI shall give his valuable observations in a somewhatconcise form. y^\. X A\ CHAPTEE XXIII. The Skai-gdrd.—Wild Scenery.—Inhabitants.—Aquatic Birds.—The GieatBlack-backed Gull.—The Common Gull.—The Caspian Tern.—TheBlack Tern.—The Mallard.—Tlie Long-tailed Hareld.—Love hasits jjains.—The Eider Duck. ASKABGABD, or belt of islands, girds, in manyparts, both the eastern and western coasts ofScandinavia. Such is the case both to the north andsouth of the port of Gothenburg. Several of theislands are pretty large, but by far the greater portioninconsiderable in size; for the most part, indeed, mereSkiir, or naked rocks (hence tbe term Skargiird) risingbut little above the surface of the water, and frequentlyso diminutive as, in the distance, to look like the backsof whales, or other monsters of the deep. Islands and skiir together, they are as the sands of the sea innumber. In places, large tunnels have been form
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