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which are so abundant that they reminded me of
“Shell Ness,” between Deal and Ramsgate.
Cartloads of shells might be shovelled up here. I
picked up one fragment of an echinus of about
four inches in diameter. The spines still remaining
upon it showed it to be a native of the Arctic seas.
Above high-water mark are banks of wave-washed
till, and the grass-covered plains around Bodö are
evident extensions of the same deposit. They extend
over some miles, and are remarkably flat and level.
How have they been levelled? Were they thus
deposited by the glacier, or have they been planed
down since and how?
The subangular polished and striated rock
fragments imbedded in this deposit clearly prove its
glacial origin, and yet no such deposit is to be
found in the course of formation by any of the
existing glaciers of Switzerland, Scandinavia, &c.
Its extent in Scotland is very great. It is there
of very ancient date, and commonly overlaid by
other deposits, glacial, alluvial, &c.; but here we
have a superficial representative of this ancient till,
which appears to have received no further covering
than the shells above described, and the turf formed
by the grass-roots. We must not forget that it is
scarcely distinguishable from the deposit forming
the lower portions of the terraces of the valley of
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