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CHAPTER III.
Absence of moraines in Arctic Norway — Commercial travellers in the
far north — Some of the results of popular education in Germany —
Provisions and wines on board Norwegian steam-packets — Wine
carte and tariff — Norwegian ale — Modern developments of steam
communication in Norway — “Eyes and no eyes” — Evidences of
universal glaciation — Minor glacier beds of a minor glacial epoch —
The glacial heritage of the Arctic agriculturist.
Having introduced the reader to the general
subject of glaciers, I may now take him so far into
my confidence as to confess, that although I had
carefully studied the researches of De Saussure,
Charpentier, Agassiz, Rendu, Forbes, and
Tyndall, besides questioning the Alpine and
Scandinavian glaciers themselves, and working out the
vestiges of ancient glaciers in these countries and
in Wales, I had, previously to the publication of
Mr. A. Geikie’s valuable volume, ‘The Great Ice
Age,’ but a very imperfect knowledge of the
magnitude and importance of that remarkable deposit,
the “till,” which I have already described as
forming the basis of the terraces of the Nid valley and
as a geological puzzle.
On reading the first edition of Mr. Geikie’s book,
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