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CHAPTER VII. 
THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF NORWAY. 
Ir Norway offers peculiar advantages to the sportsman, 
so also does it present many interesting phenomena 
well worthy of attention as regards its vegetable 
products. 
Before, however, discussing these, I purpose to lay 
before the reader a brief geographical description of this 
part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, 
Norway lies between lat. 58° and lat. 71°, and its 
greatest length from Cape Lindesnes to the North 
Cape is about 900 miles, a distance equivalent to that 
between London and Gibraltar. 
Its superficial area may be estimated at about 
121,800 square miles, half of which lies at an altitude 
of more than 2,000 feet above the sea-level, while 
about 3,200 square miles are within the limit of 
perpetual snow.* 
* The snow limit under the following latitudes may be thus 
placed :— 
Under latitude 61° .. Sulutind .. 5,500 feet. 
ais 623° .. Dovre .:) nee 
a 70°... N. Cape.) seav0 
