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from the hill above Bodö. Mr. Everest aptly
compares them to sharks’ teeth.

Seen from considerable distances these
southernmost and outermost rocks appeared angular down
to the sea level, some of them rather overhanging
or undercut on the northward side. My rough
notebook sketch is copied below.

Outlying Lofodens.

At such a distance the dip of the horizon may
have hidden some amount of rounding or glaciation.

The southernmost islands that we approached
near enough for full examination (about fifty miles
north of those sketched above) were obviously
glaciated to about 100 feet above the sea level, and
this elevation increased as we proceeded northward,
and as the islands grew larger and approached
the mainland. It reached by a tolerably steady
graduation to about 1000 feet on Hindö, which, as
the map shows, is about the largest of these islands,
and of very irregular form and varying distances
from the mainland. The height still goes on
increasing as we proceed northward until it reaches

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