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frontier towards Russia. A map of it will be communicated to the "Year-book of the Geological Survey of Norway for the years 1892-3.Kristiania, 1894."

The coast plain is rather rough and uneven, with small valleys, and often with innumerable small crags. This roughness of the coast plain, which is partly covered by the sea, has produced the myriads of islands, large and small, and the skerries, or

Fig. 3.Mount Alden and the Varoc Islands.

insulated rocks, which are scattered along the greater part of the Norwegian coast. On this coast plain lie the towns of Havanger, Bergen, Tromsoe, and others. Here live hundreds of thousands of people out of our two millions. It is thus seen to be of great importance to our nation. Without it, the whole western coast would be like the bare region east of North Cape, where the coast plain is generally wanting.

The coast plain is a plain of denudation, or a base-level. "It marks a sea-level, to which the land has been reduced by sub-ærial forces." It is glaciated and, in the author's opinion, it has been worked out in periods previous to the glacial period, and in the intervals of that time, when the land was free from ice. The time that has elapsed since the ice-age is too short to be of any importance for the great work performed.

In comparison with the great geographical phenomena here treated, the present strand-lines are small things, though they give evidence that the forces, which made the coast plain, are still working. It has occurred here, as so often elsewhere, that one remarks the small things before the great ones.