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cleavage of these rocks and the pyramidal spikes
of slaty crags that stand forward upon the face of
the precipices greatly add to their grandeur and
general effect. All are topped with the same
level plateau as that of the North Cape, and flanked
by long troughs or outspreading hollows, sloping
towards the sea and obviously glaciated. Some of
these smoothly curved trough-shaped valleys have
level barriers across them near to the sea. I should
like to have landed and examined these, in order
to learn whether they resemble the plains of till at
Bodö, but had no opportunity of doing so.
One of the regular “lions” of this coast is the
“Finkirker,” a curiously shaped rock, projecting
and nearly isolated from the headland of
Kjöllefjord. It has the appearance of a castle or
cathedral with square towers. This rock is said to have
been formerly worshipped by the heathen Lapps.
There are some remarkable chasms to the west
of the Finkirker, and altogether the headland
and entrance of the Kjöllefjord are very
magnificent. The tearing action of the waves is shown
most strikingly hereabouts, but it has not brought
down sufficient of the rock to raise a beach upon
which the waves can roll. All these tall dark
cliffs plunge directly down into a deep and still
darker sea.
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