Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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When I first visited Norway the terraces were
generally regarded as alluvial deposits, and I
described them accordingly. Now they have an
additional interest, further study of glacial
phenomena having connected them with glacial action.
I therefore looked for the evidences of this, and
found them in abundance wherever a rivulet had
cut a deep channel through the deposit. There I
found a stiff blue clay, in some places 100 feet
thick, and imbedded in it were a few boulders
that tell in outline the story of its formation, but
leaving the details to be filled up. The blue clay,
with its included boulders smoothed and scratched
with parallel lines and grooves upon their surfaces,
fairly represent that interesting and somewhat
puzzling formation known in Scotland as “till.”
But what is “till”? and what is the story told by
these communicative boulders? some of my readers
may ask. The next chapter is added in order to
answer these and some other questions suggested
by the most characteristic physical features of
Norway.
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