216 Limits of perpelual Snow in the Kortk. [March, 



an island, surrounded by a bay of tlie sea. This mountain is seen 

 many miles oli by sailors, when on iheir way to LJertien they pass 

 through the Brommel-O northwards, and over Selboefiord: and its 

 aspect often strikes with asionishmentsca captains from the southern 

 regions of Europe, when tjiey observe such a mass of snow towards 

 the end of summer. The wonder is not diminished wiien we come 

 near, and find glaciers and masses of ice upon an insulated moun- 

 tain. The chain cornrues in a straigiit line from the north to the 

 south more than twelve German miles. It rises rapidly at iVVoAre, 

 continues its whole length at the height of perpetual snow, and 

 falls so rapidly at Kin^tivig, that masses of ice hang immediately 

 above the Lay called Soijiord. On the west it borders the great 

 Hariiaigerfiordy towards the south the^or^f of Aahjie, towards the 

 north the Samlenfim-d, and towards the east it approaches near the 

 deep So-.ford lying between it and I angfieldt. There is only a 

 narrow istinnus beiween Aakne and Soefiord, the greatest height of 

 which, at Vinterthav, does nut exceed 500 feet. This ridge, so 

 completely surrounded by witer, is cslled Fclge-Foiidtn- lieldt. 

 Ford is the name given by the inhabitants to an ice plain ; so that 

 the name implies very txpressively &Jieldt, or mountain chain, co- 

 vered wiih an uninterrupted layer of ice. i^nip masters and Dutch 

 charts have changed the name to Fugiffang, and in this corrupted 

 form v,e find it in RamuSj and in other describers of Norway. 



V\c are indebted to th.at well informed clercyman Hertzl erg, in 

 Kinsenngy for an excellent account of this snow chain, which is 

 situated within his view. He has ascended it often, and on different 

 sides, and has carried a barometer to the summit. On the f 5th of 

 September, 1S05, a portable ijarometcr stood at 



On the top of Folge-Fonden. . .24"681 Eng. inches 



Therm, at 38-19° 



At Reysaeter on the Soefiord. . .30-109 Eng. inches 



Therm, at 53-4'' 



This gives the height of Folgc-Fonden, according to Laplace's 

 rule, 5 1l2 1-9 English feet above the level of the sea. Tlie baro- 

 meter stood on the snow, but not at the greatest height of the 

 mountain. JMr. Hertzberg thinks that the additional height may 

 amount to _'I8 feet ; so that the whole height of the mountain is 

 56'c54-9 English feet above the level of the sea. In the whole extent 

 of this mountain chain there occur no separate eminences ; the 

 whole is one immense snow cupola, without division or valley, 

 similar to the Buet upon a small scale. Even on the summit no 

 ice is to be found. If we penetrate through a hard crust of snow 

 about a foot thick, we come to white snow of an unknown depth. 

 Masses of ice appear first on the declivity of the mountain : 

 among these none are greater than those which precipitate, 

 themselves down the west side. In that quarter in the parish 

 of Quindherred, a smaller bay, the Molang fiord, makes it 

 way into the mountain. At the end of the jiord the valley of 

 Bondhuusdal opens ; and in the back ground of this valley there is 



