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observers, so far as regards portions of the coast, but the observations have not before been brought together as a unit, and viewed as a general feature. The annexed little map (1:400,000) shows one of the coast islands to the south of Bryan, encircled by many other smaller islands and skerries (Fig 2). The coast plain is made black, and the parts rising above it are marked with hachures. In the middle of the large island, one will remark a small white cross. If a person were to stand there Fig. 2.Region of Bömmeloe. and look towards the southeast, he would see the landscape represented in the accompanying sketch (Fig 1), in which the mountain Siggen, and some smaller mountains to the southwest of it are seen rising above the coast plain. The next picture (Fig 3) is probably still more characteristic. It gives a view of some islands at a little distance north of the town, Bergen. The island, which looks like a hat, is Alden, 1,500 feet high. The name of the island group with the three small knolls is Varoc. The low tracts, here represented, are not built of loose materials as one might suppose from the appearance, but are almost all carved from solid rock, and hard rock too, viz., crystalline schists of different kinds, dioritic rocks and conglomerates. The region of Bömmeloe, illustrated above, also has a very complex geological structure.

These are some instances of the mode of occurrence of the remnants of the coast plain. The plain may be traced along our whole western coast from 50° north latitude to the extremest