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above 2000 feet in the neighbourhood of Tromsö,
where the islands are almost confounded with
the mainland promontories. The two engravings
Vaagö and Rysö show these characteristic
differences of glaciation; the first, of an island amid
other islands, and about thirty miles from the
mainland (see map); the second, where islands and
mainland are only separated by narrow channels.
What does this indicate? Simply, that during
the period of greatest glaciation the ice thinned
out as it spread away from the mainland, and that
the great Scandinavian glaciers of even, the
severest period of the great ice age did not extend
so far as those outlying Lofodens I have figured.
Had they done so these rocks must have shared
the fate of those cropping out in the main street of
Stavanger, and of the thousands of others that are
to be seen on every part of this coast near the
mainland, all of which are rounded and shaven to
hummocky hog-back or sheep-back ridges and
mounds, some just level with the surface of the
sea, and others rising in every intermediate degree
up to such elevations as that of Torghatten or the
Hestmandö, all of which are glacier-planed up to
the heights already specified.
I dwell upon this because it leads to conclusions
quite opposed to those of some of the most
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