[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . untain-torrent,cuts angles ; V L ; this glacier wears cui-ves ?-—- \^, andwhen it was bigger, it shaped the middle distance beyondthe green lake into a big curve, at the bottom of which theriver is now beginning to saw. But here, as in the Sogne Fjord, is evidence of glaciers farlarger than any which survive in Europe. \A^ LAND-ICE—NORWAY—LOCAL SYSTEM. 209 When the steep hills are scaled in any part of theHardanger Fjord they are found to bear the same marksfrom top to bottom,from
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . untain-torrent,cuts angles ; V L ; this glacier wears cui-ves ?-—- \^, andwhen it was bigger, it shaped the middle distance beyondthe green lake into a big curve, at the bottom of which theriver is now beginning to saw. But here, as in the Sogne Fjord, is evidence of glaciers farlarger than any which survive in Europe. \A^ LAND-ICE—NORWAY—LOCAL SYSTEM. 209 When the steep hills are scaled in any part of theHardanger Fjord they are found to bear the same marksfrom top to bottom,from one end of the 5 fjord to the other. c. 3 The woodcutsmay give somenotion of the form. AtSondhord(seemap) are smallglaciers. The Voring Fossis below Sondhordat a line whichcrosses the , pagewas sketched fromG LQ the directionmarked by thearrow. Fig. (Bond- huus glacier) wassketched from (1);Fig. was sketchedfrom a point (2)high above the fjordon the way downfrom the FolgeFond, which isrudely shewn bythe curved lines about the letter S. The river which drains the glacier of Bondhuus entersp. ^^jD -^^^
Size: 1076px × 2322px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookpublisheredinburghsn, booksubjectgeo, booksubjectmeteorology
