Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 AND OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 71 GEOLOGY. On the Proofs of a gradual Rising of the Land in certain parts of —It has been long imagined that the waters of the Baltic, and even the whole Northern Ocean, have been gradually sinking. In 1834, Mr Lyell investi- gated this interesting subject. On his way to Sweden, he examined the eastern shores of the Danish islands of Moon and Seeland, but neither there nor in Scania could he discover any indication of a recent rising of the land; nor was
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 AND OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 71 GEOLOGY. On the Proofs of a gradual Rising of the Land in certain parts of —It has been long imagined that the waters of the Baltic, and even the whole Northern Ocean, have been gradually sinking. In 1834, Mr Lyell investi- gated this interesting subject. On his way to Sweden, he examined the eastern shores of the Danish islands of Moon and Seeland, but neither there nor in Scania could he discover any indication of a recent rising of the land; nor was there any tradition giving support to such a supposition. The first place he visited, where any elevation of land had been suspected, was Calmar, the fortress of which, built in the year 1030, appeared, on examination, to have had its foundations originally below the level of the sea, although they are now situate nearly two feet above the level of the Baltic. Part of the moat on one side of the castle, which is beheved to have been originally filled with water from the sea, is now dry, and the bottom covered with green turf. At Stockholm, the author found many striking geological proofs of a change in the relative level of the sea and land, since the period when the Baltic has been inhabited by the shells which it now contains. A great abundance of shells of the same species were met with in strata of loam, &c. at various heights, from 30 to 90 feet above the level of the Baltic. They consist chiefly of the Edible Cockle {Cardium edule)^ the Tellina Baltica^ and the common shore Nerite {Lit- fOiiiKi littoreits), together with portions of the common Muscle (^Mytilus edule), generally decomposed, but often recognisable by the violet colour which they have imparted to the whole mass. In cutting a canal from Sodcrtelje to Lake Rhielar, several buried vessels were found; some apparently of great antiquity, from the cir- cumstance of their containing no iron, the planks being fixe
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