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away. I observed this summer a similar deposit
covering the Dovrefjeld, and shall have more to
say concerning it when we get there. The terminal
moraines of these glaciers, if any exist, must be
farther forward, deeper down, somewhere under the
sea. The land must have had a greater elevation
above the sea during the lifetime of these glaciers,
or, more probably, they may have extended out
to sea, and have terminated by floating off in
icebergs, like those that at present fill and overflow
the lower valleys on the coast of Greenland.
Wherever I had an opportunity of examining
these farm patches, I found that the floor of the
glacier path forming the subsoil of the pasture, or
the oat, or rye, or potato field, is composed of this
glacier gravel or boulder sand, but not so deep as
that on the Dovrefjeld.
Hundreds of these small glacier beds are visible
from the packet between Trondhjem and the
Arctic circle. They are especially characteristic in
the Namsenfjord, where the rough sketches for the
engravings on the next page were taken. They
are remarkably well displayed near Yaldersund.
It must be understood that the glaciers which
planed these little valleys and deposited the basis
of their soil existed when the great ice sheet of
the great ice age that rounded the hills above them
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