The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

54 SCANDINAVIA.and is still being slowly upheaved. It is really composed of seven distinct isletswhose intervening channels have been gradually filled in. In 1100 it still formeda group of three, and Borre, a village now lost amidst the fens, stood on the beachin 1510, when a Liibeck fleet anchored in front of the houses and burnt the placeto the ground. Puggaard calculates the rate of upheaval at 2 J inches in a hundredyears. Like Rugen, Moen is much frequented as a summer retreat. It is merelya detached fragment of the larger island of Sjiilland, whose chalk cliffs, theso-called Stevns Kliut, rise in regular strata to a height of 130 feet on the eastside, where they present a striking contrast to the Moens Klint, or irregularlystratified rocks of Moen.The Ise-fiord, an extensive inlet ramifying into a multitude of windingchannels, penetrates far into the northern portion of Sjiilland, producing the same-Sjallaxd axd the Southern Isles.Scale 1 : 1,200,000.Depth under 2| Fathoms.Depth over 2$ Fathoms._ 10 Miles.variety here that is effected by the labyrinth of rocks and passages on the oppositeside. Its shores, like those of Moen, have evidently been upheaved, for old marinebeds are now visible several feet above sea-level."While the Great Belt cuts off Sjiilland from Fyen and Langeland on the west,the Oresund, or simply the Sound, severs it on the east from Scandinavia. Thisfamous channel, however, forms a deep geological parting line between the twolands, for although the Swedish coast approaches to within 4,480 yards ofHelsingor (Elsinore) Castle, it is composed of palaeozoic rocks far older than thoseof Sjiilland. The small Danish islands of the Kattegat also—Samso, Anholt, Liiso