The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

78 SCANDIXAYTA.o-laciers -were constantly increasing throughout the eighteenth century, themoraines encroaching continually on the arable land, and compelling the inhabitantsslowly to retreat before the advancing streams of compact ice ; but since1807 a retrograde movement has set in, some of the glaciers retiring from 2,000Fig. 36. Table-lands and Highlands of South Norway.Scale 1 : 1,800,000.Ltepih Htipht 1.C40 lo 3,280to 1,G40 Feet. to 1,Mo Feet. Feet._____^^ 50 Miles.to 3,000 feet, and leaving the moraines isolated in the midst of grassy valleys.Still the Buerbrae, amongst others, continued to advance till 1871, when its lowerextremity reached a level of 1,237 feet above the sea. At present several of theJustedal glaciers descend below 1,650, 1,330, and even 1,000 feet, while two on its