The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

GLACIAL ACTION"—THE ASAR. 87Glacial Action.— The Asak."With the fiords of the west correspond the lakes of the east side of the peninsula.A subsidence of the land would transform them to salt-water inlets, justas an upheaval would change the Norwegian fiords to lakes. There are evenmany valleys intersecting the Kjolen and the South Norwegian plateaux which areFig. 43.The Halleborg and Hvsseboro Hills.Scale 1 : 200,000.Forests abounding t erratic blocks. 2 Miles.occupied at certain intervals by marshes and lakelets, apparently survivals of aformer strait connecting the fiords on both sides. Such is the Lesjeskogen-vandLake, 2,044 feet above sea-level, whence flow two streams, the Rauma to the northwestto the Molde-fiord, and the Lougen, south-east through the great Mjosen tothe Gulf of Christiania. Many of these lakes have preserved their fiord-likecharacter, and one of them, the Hveningdals-vand, has a depth of 1,600 feet,or 1,418 below the sea-level.h 2