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the Nid, &c. As the reader will naturally suppose,
this has some bearing upon my promised theory.
July 20th.—Sail from Bodö at midnight, and
cross to the Lofodens in the early morning, calling
at a few of the stations, just sufficient to afford
us a general view of the characteristic physical
features of these islands, the most prominent of
which is the angularity before mentioned. During
the whole of this journey I have specially observed
the respective limits of the rounded and the
angular contour of the hills that skirt the coast and
form the islands we have passed. My object in
noting this will be easily understood, as this limit
of the rounding and smoothing marks the surface
boundary, the height of the ice bed during the
period of maximum glaciation. The existing
angular peaks are those which at that time rose above
the general ice surface just as the Grands Mulets,
the Rochers Rouges, &c., rise above the nevé of
Mont Blanc.
At the southern portion of our coasting journey
no such peaks were visible to us from the steamer
(I say “to us,” because we had a great deal of
thick weather, which may have hidden some that
would have been otherwise visible). As we
advanced northward—after leaving the Namsenfjord
and since Torghatten—several were seen, and I
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