THE IvJOLEN UPLANDS. 



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traps have spread above the sedimentary formations of Gothmd. The southern 

 elevations form altogether a very irregular table-land, culminating with a rounded 

 crest some 18 miles south of Lake Wetter. Near it rises the Taberg (1,024 feet), 

 whose steep sides are composed entirely of magnetic iron, containing nearly one- 

 third of pure metal. A few isolated hills are scattered along the south coast of 

 Sweden, amongst them the Silurian promontory of Kullen (616 feet), at the 

 northern entrance of the Sound. 



West of the Southern Kjolen rises the Trondhjem plateau, with a mean elevation 

 of 3,300 feet in the centre, and sloping gently towards the north and south. It 

 is crossed at an elevation of 2,200 feet by the railway between Christiania and 

 Trondhjem. All the rest of the country west of it is an elevated region, broken 

 towards the coast by abrupt escarpments. Here are the highest summits of the 

 peninsula and its most extensive fjeldene, or snow-fields, each fringed by glaciers 



35. — Kullen Headland. 

 Scale 1 : 320,000. 



Depth under 5 

 Fathoms. 



Forest. 



. 5 Miles. 



{hme), overlooked by eminences presenting the varied forms of teeth [tind), horns, 

 ridges {eçig), or croups (hoi, nut). There are several distinct masses, such as 

 the Dovre, a name often applied to the whole plateau, and above which rises the 

 Snehœtten (7,570 feet), long erroneously regarded as the highest point in Norway. 

 To the south are the Eomsdal Alps, the Langfjelde, and the Jotunfjelde, or " Giant 

 Mountains" (8,550 feet), the culminating point of the peninsula. Farther west 

 extends the Justedal, the largest snow-field in Europe, with an area of 360 square 

 miles, encircled by inaccessible rocks, and everywhere skirted by glaciers. South of 

 the Hardanger-fiord stretches another great snow-field, the Folgefond, 110 square 

 miles in extent, besides the Ilardangervidde, the Oplande, and the Saetersdal, 

 terminating at the Naze. 



In this southern region the snow-line rises to about 4,500 feet, and round 

 about the Justedal are the largest and best-known glaciers of Norway. These 



