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masses. We see the Highland rising in a gentle curve from the
edge of the shore, and sinking down again towards the continental
plain of the Woodland. And we have followed the work of the
glaciers, seen the Alpine forms worked out into sharp peaks above
and outside the great glacier which has shaped the ordinary
undulating plateau between the river courses with the whale-like
hills. And we have seen the various glacier streams hollowing
out their peculiar beds in the solid rock in the shape of fjords,
lakes, valleys and glens — a varied and magnificent sculpture.

Valley (Eastern Norway).

But it is not with the bare, unweathered rock that the activity
of man is associated. It is only the loose covering that is of any
use worth mentioning in the struggle for existence, small though
the part that it plays is, in the topography of Norway. It is
with the scattered moraine tracts of the Highland that the mountain
summer pasturage is associated. Much of the fertile land lies
too high for any other use. It is with the poor gravel and sand
tracts between the granite hills, that the thin population of the
Woodland beyond the valleys is associated, and the forest has

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