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with the Raste-Gaise (2,880 feet), overlooking the valley of the Tana, on the 

 Russian frontier. Near this spot the Lapps speak of a cone occasionally emitting 

 lurid vapours, and whose snows at times melt rapidly. 



Notwithstanding the general low elevation of the country, the headlands at the 

 extremity of every njarg, or peninsula, almost invar iuhly end in lofty terraces 

 abruptly truncated. Such is the Nordkyn, or Kinerodden, northernmost point of 

 the European mainland. Two others, the low Knivskiarrodden and the moi-e 

 elevated North Cape, lying 4 miles nearer the pole, stand on the granite island 

 of Magero, separated by a narrow channel from Norway. The Austrian explorer, 

 Weyprecht, has suggested North Cape as one of the most favourable sites for a 

 polar meteorological observatory. 



South-west of this point the summits of the islands and mainland are sufficiently 

 near to present the effect of a continuous range, and here begins the Kjoleu 



Fig. 33. — Island or Mageko. 

 Scale 1 : 635,000. 



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properly so called. In the island of Seiland the northernmost European glacier 

 overflows from the perpetual snows of the surrounding rocks, while that of Talvik, 

 on the coast, usually descends to the shore of the Alten-fiord. On the southern 

 slope of the same mass is another glacial stream, resembling those of Greenland, 

 and discharging into the Jokel-fiord. This is the only place in Scandinavia 

 where may still be seen the phenomenon, common enough in former geological 

 epochs, of fragments of ice breaking off above the undermining waters and floating 

 away with the ocean current. South of these there are many other glaciers a 

 hundred times more extensive, but all melting into streams before reaching the sea. 

 In the lower valleys nothing is now visible except the traces of their former presence. 



