Central Europe . Fig. 18.—The Boddens of Pomerania. new marine formations which have sought to connect achain of islands, and have succeeded to a greater or lessextent in that aim. The complex coast-line of the islandof Riigen is the classic example. Narrow, gently curvingsandbanks link together some old cores of undulatingdiluvial land around the old high-island of Jasmund (527feet high), beneath whose crown of beech trees shine thewhite chalk cliffs of Stubben Kammer, forming a beautifullandmark from the distant German shore. Arcona, at NORTH GERMAN LOWLAND AND SEAS 97 the north-eastern poin
Central Europe . Fig. 18.—The Boddens of Pomerania. new marine formations which have sought to connect achain of islands, and have succeeded to a greater or lessextent in that aim. The complex coast-line of the islandof Riigen is the classic example. Narrow, gently curvingsandbanks link together some old cores of undulatingdiluvial land around the old high-island of Jasmund (527feet high), beneath whose crown of beech trees shine thewhite chalk cliffs of Stubben Kammer, forming a beautifullandmark from the distant German shore. Arcona, at NORTH GERMAN LOWLAND AND SEAS 97 the north-eastern point of Rugen, needs a cable only fiftymiles in length to connect it with Scania ; and the mostwesterly of the islets is but thirty-five miles from Moen,the nearest of the Danish islands, with which it is connectedby a line of ten fathoms depth. At this point we leave. FiG. 19.—The Forden of Holstein. the open main basin of the Baltic, in which there aredepths of as much as 234 fathoms, and enter the narrow,shallower waters of the Belts. On the other side of the broad gulf of Neustadt, intothe head of which the Trave flows, a third type of coastformation begins on the shores of Holstein : that of the forden. These are inlets running at right angles to the 98 CENTRAL EUROPE course of the coast-line, and narrowing as they go up intothe land: they are evidently submerged valleys. Themost important of them, the inlet of Kiel, whose entrancenarrows at Friedrichsort and so partly and advantage-ously encloses the inner recess, corresponds in a strik-ing manner to the upper valley of the Eider. It appears,indeed, to be an abandoned valley of this river, which wasonly diverted into another course by the Glacial accumulation of the ground moraine barred the returnof the Eider to its old valley, even when the barrier of icewas dissolved, and compel
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