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Europe. The craggy headlands and the structure
of the intermediate slopes all indicate that the ice
sheet moved in the contrary direction hereabouts,
viz. from south to north. The table-tops of the
North Cape, Nordkyn, and the rest of these
promontories are all smooth planed and rounded over,
or sloped down at the edge of the precipice and a
little farther back. During the time of greatest
glaciation they probably presented the same
appearance as now displayed by the glacier cornices
at the precipitous terminations of the Jostedal
Sneefond, which I have described in chapter xii.
of ‘Through Norway with a Knapsack.’ The
characteristic rounding down of the edge of these
headlands was probably produced by the bending
over of these glacier cornices previous to their
breaking off and dropping into the sea, or on to
the ice-foot below.
The whole of this Arctic face of Europe is a
glacial “leeseite,” not a “stosseite;” it is the side
from which the ice-flow came, not that towards
which it was thrust.
The terraced weathering of the rocks forming
the shelves upon which the sea birds reside is
shown in the annexed engraving, which represents
one of the lower headlands of the Laxefjord,
near to Sverholtklubben, on which the
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