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unaltered, yet to my vision they now present some
interesting features that were unseen in 1856.
Between that time and the present my own
direct study, and the general progress of
knowledge, has removed the degree of scepticism with
which I once regarded the bold speculations of
those geologists who were early in defining the
vast magnitude of the glaciation of the northern
hemisphere during the great glacial period before
referred to. Thus, in my first visit, I looked
merely for moraines and scratches, such as I had
seen in the neighbourhood of existing Alpine
glaciers, while this summer the vestiges of
universal, as well as of local glaciation, equally
occupied my attention. The fact that I can see so
much now that was quite unnoticed eighteen years
ago, curiously illustrates the effect of education in
enlarging the range of our powers of physical
observation. To know what to observe, when and
how to look for it, and to be able to recognize it
when seen, is one of the most important
qualifications of the traveller, and is that wherein
intelligent guidance may be of the greatest service.
We steamed as before through the Trondhjem
and Skjoren fjords, along the coast, stopping at
many stations, and then plunging deep into the
Namsenfjord, winding through it and out again
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