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is not favourable to the preservation of
impressions of the former class, which are rare and
ill-defined; nor are the mounds of stones, which
are abundant enough, sufficiently characteristic to
deserve the appellation of moraines. They are,
indeed, sometimes disposed in elongated flat-topped
ridges; but this is due, if I mistake not, to the
eroding action of torrents which have graduallv
undermined them, leaving abrupt talus, which at
first sight resemble moraines, but which, in their
present form, it is difficult or impossible to
identify. The surprise which I at first felt at observing
no more distinct traces of ancient glaciers
diminished afterwards, upon reflection that had such
glaciers existed they must have covered
contemporaneously the whole of the vast extent of the
Dovrefjeld; that if they could have moved over
such inconsiderable slopes, the motion must have
been nearly insensible; that the traces of such
ancient ice formations (if they existed) must be
sought in the deep valleys or outlets of the fjeld,
where the true glaciers must have protruded
themselves from under the snow-line with a considerable
declivity," &e.*
I had carefully studied Forbes’s book before my
first visit to Norway, and repeated the above
* ‘ Xorvrny and its Glaciers,’ pp. 24 and 25.
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