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Identifier: norwayitsglacier00forb (find matches)
Title: Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphné, Berne and Savoy
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Forbes, James David, 1809-1868
Subjects: Glaciers
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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bly fixed inmy memory. Plate IV. represents this scene. The smallisland in the foreground is Hagsteen. It appeared to becomposed of white limestone. The upper part of theQvenanger-fiord lying to the east of these mountains isdescribed as being very well wooded. Von Buch comparesthe scenery to that of the lake of Lucerne! He foundthe birch woods luxuriant at 800 feet, and only entirelyvanishing at 1150. There are also copper works, whichare carried on by an English company, and from which,as a centre, interesting excursions might unquestionablybe made, particularly to some singular glaciers in theneighbourhood. One of these is at the head of the littleinlet of the Jokuls-fiord (Jokul in Icelandic, means aglacier). It is the only glacier in Norway which is actuallyivashed by the sea. The detaching and fall of masses of iceinto the fiord occasions frequent commotions, propagatedfor a distance of miles—the waves occasioned by themfrequently overflowing the huts of the natives. This fact
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