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ascend the highest of the neighbouring hills to the
beacon which marks its summit. The Lofodens,
though at a distance of about fifty miles, are
well seen as jagged angular spikes and
crystal-like projections on the horizon. This angularity,
which is most perfect in the southernmost or
outlying islands, contrasts very remarkably with the
general rounded outlines of the mainland
mountains. The significance of this contrast will be
explained hereafter.
The tide is low when we descend, and a
considerable stretch of flat sea-bottom laid bare. There
are no “sands” here, like those of our British
coasts, where the waves have ground down the
flint pebbles and other siliceous material to this
condition; neither is there a beach, nor the rocky
sea-bottom common on the Norwegian coast, nor
the slimy deposit of a river mouth, but in the place
of these is a very stiff grey mud or clay, in which
are irregularly imbedded small pebbles, larger
stones, and still larger boulders, many of which
are smoothed and striated on one or more of their
sides. It is true “till,” similar to that which forms
the lowest and most puzzling of the glacial
deposits of Scotland, of which I have already spoken,
and it evidently continues under the sea.
High-water mark is shown by a ridge of shell fragments,
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