tei FORESTRY OF NOR WAV. 



In a paragraph preceding this he says: 'Thus the 

 general surface of the country is in reality composed of 

 elevated and barren table-lands. The proportion of arable 

 land (land which might be tilled) to the entire extent of 

 Norway, is not, according to the competent authority of 

 Professor Munch, more than 1 to 10 ; and if we exclude a 

 few local enlargements of the plains near the capital, it 

 would not even exceed 1 to 100. By a rude estimate in 

 Professor Keilan's map, I find that the portion of the sur- 

 face of Norway south of the Trondhjem fiord, which exceeds 

 3000 feet above the level of the sea, amounts to very 

 nearly 40 per cent, of the whole ; and when it is recollected 

 that only one summit exceeds 8000 feet, and that the 

 spaces exceeding 6000 are almost inappreciable on the 

 map, it will be more clearly understood how completely 

 the mountains have the character of table-lands, whose 

 average height probably rather falls short of than exceeds 

 4000 feet/* 



Detailed information in regard to all the mountain 

 systems is supplied by Dr Broch. Passing over his state- 

 ments in regard to those in western and northern Norway 

 we find him stating in regard to the mountain chains, 

 plateaux, and masses, in southern Norway, after having 

 described them with similar details, that of these, the Dron- 

 theim plateau, the Dovre fjeld, &c., constitute a remark- 

 able whole in regard to physical and orographic character. 

 Cut up almost to infinity, belonging at once to the east, to 

 the west, and to the north of the country, they occupy 

 almost half of the portion of Norway situated between 

 the country to the south of Drontheim and of the valley 

 of the Levanger to Jemtland in Sweden. These mountains 

 thus cover very nearly the fourth part of the whole super- 

 ficies of Norway. They reunite in a continuous mountain 

 mass, the whole of which by the south of this limit rises 

 more than 600 metres, 2000 feet, above the level of the sea. 



* These estimates refer to Rhenish or German feet, which are about 3 per cent, larger 

 than English feet. 



