. Frost & fire : natural engines, tool-marks & chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller. eaksof bare rounded rock, on one of which is the path. In the soft earth I tracked an English shoe, and presentlysaw two men going the wrong way, about a quarter of a mileahead. I hailed them, put them right, and we joined com-])any. We visited the foss, and together returned to Eide.(The foss and its mark are described, p. 90.) Sondhord is near \]\o Avatershed of Southern Norway,and glaciers are seen at the head of the glen. A days walk leads to a glen, whose waters pass Kongsberg LAN
. Frost & fire : natural engines, tool-marks & chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller. eaksof bare rounded rock, on one of which is the path. In the soft earth I tracked an English shoe, and presentlysaw two men going the wrong way, about a quarter of a mileahead. I hailed them, put them right, and we joined com-])any. We visited the foss, and together returned to Eide.(The foss and its mark are described, p. 90.) Sondhord is near \]\o Avatershed of Southern Norway,and glaciers are seen at the head of the glen. A days walk leads to a glen, whose waters pass Kongsberg LAND-ICE—XOltWAY—LOCAL SYSTEM. 215 and run south to the Skaocrrack. A renniant of the ice-engineis at this centre ; another little bit of it is left at Bondhuus(p. 209) ; and at the mouth of the Hardanger Fjord are someof the tool-marks of old Scandinavian ice. It was launchedfor Scotland, and it shaped the Scandinavian rocks whichare figured in the woodcut below, for the rocks are stratified,and the ice-ruts can be traced from Srindhord down to tlie sea. o/ rock, -utth drift terraces foimmj; in 7cater,. A large rock-groove U luilffilled ?with sea-iuater; a high ridge D zvhich divides two branchesof the fjords; at the fork V is a tor --. The river-mark in the foreground is 43. A Shokt Branch and Part of the Maik Hardanger Fjord, sear a point about ]000 feet above the sea, looking to a ro(; point where tliemain glacier, whicli hegiin iibout Sondhonl, joined this branch. CHAPTER XVII. DENUDATION U—FROST-MAKKS 7—LAND-ICE G—OLD LOCALSYSTEM—WESTERN SCANDINAVIA. These twu local ice-systems })laced far suutli, aiul oppositeto Scotland, Mitli tlieir old marks beside tliem, are goodsamples of Scaiidinaviau glacial denudation, and they areeasily visited. With the lesson taught by fresh inthe mind, each Norwegian fjord is found to contain likemarks. If the Sogne and Hardanger Fjords contained bigglaciers, the snow-heaps which fe
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