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The principal or west entrance from the Skager Rack, has a dangerous rock in the mid-passage, which must be cautiously avoided.
The Norway shore is in very few places level, or of a gradual ascent ; but ge nerally steep, angular and impendent: so that close to the rocks, the sea is a hundred, two hundred, nay, three hundred fathoms deep. On the long and uneven sand banks, which are generally termed storeg, or by others hauhroe, the bottom is much more sloping. These protuberances run north and south along the coast of Norway, like the sheers, though not within them. In some places they are not more than four or six leagues, in others twelve or sixteen from the main land ; whence it may be inferred that the bays are formed by them.