ISO 6LAFSEN AND tOVELSEN’s ing against such fatal accidents; nevertheless we shall communis cate our opinion, which may be useful with respect to the ordinary disruptions that occur almost every year. The inhabi- tants, who pretend that there can be no remedy for these mis- fortunes, have neglected the precautions that were taken by their1 ancestors; such as high inclosures, or stone walls, raised to stop the progress of the fallen masses. These walls were composed of two parts, which met and formed an acute angle opposite to the crevice of the mountain, where it was supposed the fall would take place: this angle was very thick, and constructed of the largest stones that could be procured; the walls were continued on the two sides of the angle, and formed two arcs of a circle, the extremities of which ascended obliquely to the foot of the mountain. The angle had a coating of stone within and without; and the two walls which formed it diminished gradually in strength from the point to their end. For a long time these walls were carefully repaired every year ; even when the fall had been so great as to cover a large portion of the soil, and destroy many houses: and when the fragments that fell were so considerable as to form a hillock at the base of the mountains, they increased the hillock and made it serve as a wall, to secure- their habitations from the effects of similar accidents. REMARKABLE RIVERS, LAKES, &C. In the northern quarter there are a much greater number of rivers and lakes of fresh water than in the western part, and they all afford abundance of fine salmon and trout. There is a lake in the canton Olafstiord, in the district of Vadla, which is well worthy of attention from the remarkable circumstance that a variety of sea-fish, and particularly the cod, are naturalized and abound in it. In winter the inhabitants break holes in the ice, through which they pass their lines, and catch these fish by the hook. In the spring it abounds in trout: and the sea-fish taken in it have a most exquisite taste, very different from that of the same species caught in the sea; from which the lake is only sepa- rated by a kind of jettee, formed of the mud and surf of the shore, and heaped together by the impetuosity of the waves. The river that descends into the lake has formed a narrow passage over this bank into the sea. The lake is about a Danish league in length: and it is very evident that it has been separated from the s-ea by the effect of an earthquake, or subterraneous fires; thatthe same revo- lution first formed the bank, and enclosed in it the species of sea- fish that it now contains; and that the river which empties itself into it, by gradually depriving the first water of its saline quality, naturalized the fish that it contained, and which afterwards bred in it.

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