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noon, in both places the minimum is at 6 P.M. At Chris- 

 tiania the lowest amplitude is 0'5 mm. ; the maximum 

 occurs a little before mid-day, the minimum at 6 P.M. The 

 secondary noturnal maximum and minimum there are 

 very marked. 



The Highlands of Norway are more frequently high- 

 lying plateaux designated fjelds,* than in outline what is 

 generally suggested to an English reader by the designa- 

 tion mountains ; but mountains they are. 



'In the northern district of Scandinavia/ says Forbes, 

 ' where the theory of a ridge is in some respects less 

 inaccurate than in the south, its insufficiency was clearly 

 discovered by the difficulty or impossibility of defining the 

 line of demarcation between Norway and Sweden by that 

 of a continuous watershed. Such a ridge, if it exist at all, 

 must be held in some cases to run lip to the very coast of 

 Norway, or even beyond it, into the islands ; in other 

 places it dies out altogether, and is resumed with a change 

 of direction. 



' The present boundary between Norway and Sweden 

 was defined by a joint commission of engineers in the 

 middle of the last century, and is represented on nearly 

 every map as the exact direction of a slightly zig-zag chain 

 of mountains called the Kjolen, or Kcelen. This is assumed 

 in most maps to be prolonged along the border of the two 

 countries considerably to the south-east of Trondhjem 

 (Drontheim), and it was even long maintained that a 

 mountain mass existed there of prodigious elevation, from 

 which a great many rivers, particularly the Glommen, the 

 Gota, and the Dal, take their rise. The height of this 

 fabulous mountain was even assumed to be 12,000 feet. 

 It is, however, only a slight and lower extension of the 

 Dovre fjeld beyond the deep valley of the Glommen, and 

 its greatest height does not amount to 5000 feet/ 



* By Dr Broch there is given an orographic table, in which is supplied tabulated 

 information in regard to the different mountain chains and mountain plateaux of Nor- 

 way, the principal and the secondary regions, and divisions of these, and the names and 

 altitudes of between five and six hundred of the more elevated peaks. 



