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SCANDINAVIA. 



Tue Kjoi.en Uplands. 



Of tlie Northern Kjolen tlie highest summit is the Sulitelraa (6,151 feet), rising above 

 the eastern branches of the Salten-fiord within the arctic circle. It is not an isolated 

 peak, but rather a group of crests resting on a common basis nearly 5,000 feet high, 

 and covered with vast snow-fields, the source of several glaciers. South of this 

 mass, and separated from it by a deep lake, rises the less elevated but more 

 imposing Saulo, commanding an extensive view, which is limited on the west and 

 south-west by the vast plateau covered by the Svartisen, or " Black Glacier," 270 

 square miles in extent, and the largest snow-field in Northern Scandinavia. South of 

 the river Yefsen another plateau, the Store-Borgefield, has a snow-fiekl with an area 

 of 150 square miles, succeeded by mountains 4,500 to 5,000 feet high, beyond which 

 the Kjolen falls, and is pierced through and through by wide channels. Here a 

 marshy table-land, scarcely 1,500 feet high, connects two lakes, and through them 



Fig. 34. — Profile of the Scandinavian Highlands. 

 Horizontal Scale X : 16.000.000. Vertical Scale 1 : 1,600,000. 



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300 ililes. 



two valleys, draining the one westwards to the Troudhjem-fiord, the other 

 eastwards to the river Indals. Not far from this spot the ridge is crossed by its 

 northernmost carriage road, 1,670 feet high ; and a little farther south the 

 railway from Trondhjem to Sundsvall crosses the Kjolen at an elevation of 1,948 

 feet. Beyond this point the main ridge bends south-east into Sweden, gradually 

 falling to a simple terrace, which imiDcrceptibly disappears between the Klar and 

 Wester Dal river valleys, in the direction of Lake Wetter. 



This branch of the Kjolen is connected by low ridges and terraces with the 

 Tiveden and other hills, formerly serving as the natural limit of North and South 

 Sweden — Nordan-Skog and Sunnan-Skog, or " North Forest " and " South 

 Forest." The elevations occurring especially in Scania, formerly an island 

 separated by wide channels from the rest of Sweden, must be regarded as quite 

 distinct from the Norwegian system, although formed almost entirely of the same 

 crystalline and palaeozoic rocks. Still there are here some basalt rock^, and 



