. The earth and its inhabitants ... 341 Along many parts of the coast the water in the lochs resembles that of LochStennis, in the Orkneys, which is briny at one end and fresh at the other ; andlike it they have two distinct faunas and floras.* What, then, is the cause of the contrast between the two coasts of Scotland, acontrast which may also be observed with regard to the Baltic and Atlantic coastsof Scandinavia ? Why have the ancient gulfs opening out upon the GermanOcean been filled up with alluvium and drift, whilst the innumerable indenta-tions on the west have retained their primitive
. The earth and its inhabitants ... 341 Along many parts of the coast the water in the lochs resembles that of LochStennis, in the Orkneys, which is briny at one end and fresh at the other ; andlike it they have two distinct faunas and floras.* What, then, is the cause of the contrast between the two coasts of Scotland, acontrast which may also be observed with regard to the Baltic and Atlantic coastsof Scandinavia ? Why have the ancient gulfs opening out upon the GermanOcean been filled up with alluvium and drift, whilst the innumerable indenta-tions on the west have retained their primitive forms ? It is once more theglaciers to which this phenomenon must be attributed. In the glacial age, as inour own days, the moisture-laden winds came from the west and south-west, andprecipitation, mostly in the form of snow, was consequently most considerable alon»-the western slopes. But they were not torrents which carried the waters back into Fig. 166.—Loch 1 . 250,000. Tiv^r ^fV^.i^^.;^ ~: v^sy. / / f /â^i.^^^.
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