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Even in the coldest winter montb parts of the seaboard maintain a temperature above 

 freezing point, and at Christianssand and the Naze the glass scarcely ever fulls 

 below Tero. At Bergen, which is less exposed to the warm south-west winds, 

 there are twenty-four frosty days in the year, although at Hamraerfest, on the 

 extreme north coast, a small stream never freezes. But farther inland the rest of 

 the peninsula comes within the limits of the frost-line in winter. Calculated for 



Fi''. .55.— Difference of Température between Summer and "Winter. 

 According to Mohn. 



the whole year, this line embraces the interior of the Norwegian Finmark and 

 the Swedish Norbotten, and farther south the Dovre plateau, besides some other 

 uplands about Roros, all of which regions are consequently almost uninhabitable. 

 The population naturally gravitates to the warmer districts, and few houses 

 are found higher up than 2,000 feet, while summer chalets are seldom met beyond 

 3,000 feet. Yet here and there valleys are thinly peopled which might seem to 



