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42 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
Near to Laurgaard, just before reaching the bridge,
the road passes over the lower part of a huge heap of
great masses of stone, some of them blasted for
road-making. They are for the most part angular, and
present every appearance of a terminal moraine. This is
especially the case to the left of the spot where the road
passes over it; the heap comes abruptly upon the
greensward, with a rounded swelling outline, just as though
pushed forward by some force from behind. Had the
stones fallen from above there must have been an
abundance of stray boulders of the same kind beyond
it. Farther up the western branch of the valley there
are long heaps high 011 the hill-side, forming a ridge;
these heaps, like that by the roadside, are too abrupt
at the sides to have fallen from above, for had they come
down with a falling impetus they could not possibly
have rested there. Professor Forbes does not appear to
have observed them.*
* Speaking of the Dovre Fjeld, which is some 2,001) feet higher
than tliis, Professor Forbes says : " I looked with attention for any
traces of glaciers, either by wearing and polishing the rocks where
they came into view, or in the depositation of moraines, but I saw
nothing very decisive of either kind. The friable and slaty rock is
not favourable to the preservation of impressions of the former class,
which are rare and ill-defined ; nor are the mounds of stones, which
are abundant enough, sufficiently characteristic to deserve the
appellation of moraines. They are, indeed, sometimes disposed in
elongated flat-topped ridges ; but this is due, if I mistake not, to the
eroding action of torrents which have gradually undermined them,
leaving abrupt talus, which at first sight resemble moraines, but
which, in their present form, it is difficult or impossible to identify.
T11L- surprise which I at first felt at observing 110 more distinct traces
of ancient glaciers diminished afterwards, upon reflection that had
such glaciers existed they must have covered contemporaneously the
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