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and teachers will soon commence. We therefore
take the first available means of reaching England
via Gottenburg, rather than wait for the ‘Angelo.’
The general growth of wealth and luxury, and
the other changes that have come upon Christiania
since my first visit, are described in chapter i. of
the new edition of ‘ Through Norway with a
Knapsack.’
The rocky islands of the Christiania fjord are
glaciated like those farther north. It has evidently
been the bed of a huge glacier formed by the
confluence of several glaciers that have swept down
the valley of the Glommen, over the Mjosen lake
and the Randsfjord, and from the minor valleys
westward. According to my view of the ancient
glaciation, these great confluent glaciers terminated
in a floating ice-wall, stretching and thinning out
in the sea, and all the outer portion of this mer
de glace must have been floated by the water, or
resting but lightly on the bottom, where it
deposited more or less of its solid burthen. Further
inland it must have rested with its whole weight
and greater thickness upon the rocks.
The relative depths of the Christiania fjord and
the Mjosen lake accord with this. The bottom
of the inland lake is 11.00 feet below the sea level,
while the Christiania fjord is but 370 feet deep
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