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CHAPTER VIII.
Raised beaches in the Malangerfjord — American fellow-passengers —
Smoke-room confidences concerning the feeling of the South —
A practical hint to intending emigrants — Virginian welcome to
English visitors and settlers — My meteorological snubbing —
Disappearance of the sea serpent and reappearance of the Seven Sisters
— Bishop Pontoppidan’s account of the great sea-serpent, and the
still greater Kraken.
We leave Tromsö at noon. In the Malangerfjord
are two raised beaches, visible on both sides, and
extending for many miles. They differ from the
terraces of till before described, and appear, as I
saw them from the packet, to be narrow shelves
or true beaches where the substance of the
mountain itself has been worn away by some agency
that has acted in horizontal lines. Whether
this agent was the edge of a horizontal glacier,
filling the valley to two different heights at
different periods, or the wash of the waves of the
fjord when it occupied these levels, I could not tell
from the packet. A careful examination of the
shore would doubtless decide this question, as in
the first case there should be well-marked horizontal
striation wherever the rocks have the close-grained
texture requisite for the preservation of such
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