CLIMATE. 23 



Swedish or East Side. Norwegian or West Side. 1 



Feet above Feet above 



the Sea Level. the Sea Level 



Under 62 N. Lat. on the Dovre Fell 5300 

 63 80S, 5200 



64 . . 4800 



65 4300 4500 



66 4600 



on the fells 3900 



( on tne tells 



( in the valleys. 3400 



68 4100 . . 3400 



70 up at Alten . 3600 . 



71 at the North Cape 2400 



Horses are not met with above 67. Meutzer gives the 

 most northerly limit of the glutton and the lemming 70. 

 The bear, wolf, lynx, otter, beaver, fox, martin, weasel, 

 squirrel, between 69 and 70. Of the hare and stoat at 69; 

 tame rein- deer 69. Anywhere above the polar circle the 

 midsummer sun is to be seen above the horizon during the 

 whole night, but just within its limits it is necessary to 

 ascend an eminence to see it well. The southern limit of 

 the tame reindeer in Sweden is 64, which now appears to be 

 the most northerly limit of the elk, but wild reindeer are 

 met with on the Norwegian fells nearly as low as 60. 



The whole of the Scandinavian continent lies upon a 

 mass of rock, the sharp and barren fragments of which after 

 having been pulverized by time, lie scattered all over the 

 lower valleys and plains, covered over only in certain places 

 with a thin layer of earth or vegetation, so that the moderate 

 harvests of these northerly countries demand greater care 

 and labour than in other lands more favoured by nature and 

 climate. In the Scandinavian rocks and mountains those 

 formations which are peculiar to certain other lands, 

 containing coal and other valuable products and mine- 

 rals, are wanting, and only in one place, Hogances, in South 

 Sweden, is there a bed of coal, and this of very moderate 

 extent. In Sweden we certainly do meet with mountains 



