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with water, answering to the erosion by the ends of the shorter
glaciers in the valleys.

Mountain valley (Western Norway).

A fairly regular series of shallower and less uniformly shaped
but often large lakes, is found in the Highland, even in most of
the large valleys just within the axis of altitude, where, its a rule,
there are glens, «skar» leading to the corresponding valley on the
west side. These glens are more or less deeply cut, trough-shaped
valleys that pass right across an imperceptible watershed. From
the bogs and small lakes that lie in them at the water-shed, rivers
run down to both sides, e. g. from Lesjeskog Lake (2011 feet
above the sea), Rauma westwards to the Romsdal Fjord, and
Laagen southwards to the Glommen. These peculiar glens have
evidently been formed at a time when the glacier movement was
right across the crest of the Highland, as the «glacier-shed» lay
a little to the south-east of it, so that glacier-flows were driven
across the lowest ridges, and there excavated their usual
trough-shaped beds, often from 1000 to 1300 feet down through the plateau.
These glens are of the greatest importance in connecting the east

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