[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . :;:! § s sa I! C5 .o. lii; 5J., » 1 <»)«.•§ h, liiiiiffiMiilfc IIIJIJ 1 LAND-ICE—NORWAY—LOCAL SYSTEM. 211 the fjord to the left of the cut (Fig. ), behind a tall birchtree. The calm fjord was marked by curved streams of wateror wind flowing up the hollow groove, and hanging on itssides. Wind and tide are at work; they have not yet worn outthe tool-marks of ice which abound near the shore ; but theyhave quarried a few cliffs, to shew what a sea-mark is. Inthe flats are plains of
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . :;:! § s sa I! C5 .o. lii; 5J., » 1 <»)«.•§ h, liiiiiffiMiilfc IIIJIJ 1 LAND-ICE—NORWAY—LOCAL SYSTEM. 211 the fjord to the left of the cut (Fig. ), behind a tall birchtree. The calm fjord was marked by curved streams of wateror wind flowing up the hollow groove, and hanging on itssides. Wind and tide are at work; they have not yet worn outthe tool-marks of ice which abound near the shore ; but theyhave quarried a few cliffs, to shew what a sea-mark is. Inthe flats are plains of clay and drift, and the bottom of thefjord is strewed with glacial debris wherever it can bereached; and close to the waters edge is a terrace under the old ice which made these marks was afloat at ahigh level, the Hardanger glacier was more than a hundredmiles long, as deep as the hollow in which the fjord now ebbsand flows, and when laimched, the floats started south-west-wards for Scotland; for this slip aims about the firths ofForth and Tay. This tract of country is frequented by bears, red-deer, roe,fa
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