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sea. The hardy farmers of all this Nordland coast,
the peasant freeholders who till the only pastures
and arable lands of this part of Norway, are
living upon an inheritance bequeathed to them by
glaciers; they are the heirs and successors of ice
and snow, and emulate their predecessors by their
steady, dogged, unconquerable industry.
All “the rich green fields and substantial
farms,” which in 1856 I observed and described
as so remarkable a feature of latitude 64½, I now
see to be the beds and deposits of ancient glaciers,
just as the great plains and fertile valleys of
southern lands are the beds and deposits of rivers
and lakes. That their origin, now so obvious,
should have been thus completely hidden from me,
and have escaped the attention of other observers, is
a curious and suggestive fact, indicating that much
more remains to be done in the study of ancient
Arctic glaciation. I am satisfied that careful
investigation of the details of these minor
glacier-beds, and their relations to the more general
glaciation of Scandinavia, will throw much light
upon the still open questions of the existence of
one or more interglacial periods, and the maximum
magnitude of the ancient Arctic ice sheet.
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