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just after its publication, early in 1874, a theory
of the formation of the till, differing from that
which Mr. Geikie advocates and those which he
controverts, suggested itself; one which involves
a view of the ancient glaciation of Europe rather
different from that which is generally held, and
which at once threw a strong light upon some
of the difficulties I had encountered during my
previous visit to Norway; one of the most
prominent of which is the scarcity of moraines in
Norway and their especial absence in Arctic
Norway, where I expected to find them so abundant.
Readers of ‘Through Norway with a Knapsack’
may remember that I only described one Arctic
moraine, that at the Oxfjord station. I looked for
moraines with especial eagerness all the way from
Trondhjem to Hammerfest, and all the way back
again, and only saw this one, although the whole
journey included a panorama of the mouths or
outlets of hundreds of glaciated valleys, just the places
where moraines should abound.
I saw neither terminal moraines at the mouths
of these valleys, nor the vestiges of lateral moraines
on their flanks. Forbes appears to have been
similarly disappointed, though he does not
pointedly express the anomaly. One of my objects in
revisiting Norway was to test my new theory, and
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