The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

GLACIAL ACTION—THE ASAE, 89in 1840, although combated by men like Berzelius and Murchison, is nowuniversally accepted. The evidences of glacial action, striae, polished rocks,moraines, boulders, are far too obvious to be overlooked. There is scarcely ageological chart of Scandinavia in which the form of the hills does not bearwitness to the passage of glaciers, and in some places glacial mounds and bouldersare numerous enough to impart a special character to the scenery. From aFig. 45.—Islands in the Gulp op Christiaku.distance the traveller coasting the southern Norwegian seaboard easily detects theaction of ice in the rounded forms of the headlands, and in the interior of Swedenthe angular rocks and crests of many hills have been worn to level surfaces by thesame cause. Even the lava beds that have overflown on the older formations inthe neighbourhood of the great lakes have to some extent been affected by similarinfluences. Such are the two polygonal masses of Halleborg and Hunneborg,separated from each other by a narrow trough, through which runs the railway