CONTOUR AND GENERAL APPEARANCE. 149 
‘The temperature is remarkably similar throughout the 
whole extent of country between the Bothnian Gulf and 
the alpine ridge of mountains, about 69° of North Lati- 
tude. But in those parts which lie between the Lapland 
Alps and the Northern Ocean, the heat, excepting in some 
of the valleys, is almost entirely regulated by the latitude. 
In point of temperature, therefore, Lapland may be divided 
into two regious, the inland and the maritime. In the 
former the winter is very severe, and the summer very hot; 
in the latter the winter is comparatively mild, and the 
summer cold; the one being influenced by the tempera- 
ture of the Frozen Ocean, and the other screened from its 
action by the alpine ridge forming a circle round it. The 
following table furnishes a comparative view of the mean 
temperature in both regions, by Fahrenheit’s thermometer. 
At Enontekis, 
about 68} degrees, At Mageroe, 
1429 feet above the} North Cape. { 
level of the sea, é 
January, . . , ‘ 0° 41’ 22° 08’ 
February, ri ; . 0 55 23 16 
March, . . ‘ : ll 41 24 71 
April, . 7 ‘ 7 26 02 30 02 
ay, . si ‘ 36 56 34 07 
June, . . . : 49 49 40 14 
July, ‘ . H : 59 63 46 42 
August, . . 7 é 55 89 43 70 
September, . . F 41 78 37 62 
October, . . . . 27 «+44 32 00 
November, . is . 12 20 25 75 
December, é Fi 7 1 01 25 74 
26 85 32 13 
‘Though the mean temperature at Enontekis is nearly 
6° lower than at the North Cape, yet is the former place 
better calculated for vegetation than the latter, and even 
brings to maturity certain kinds of corn, which is quite out 
of the question at the Cape. The reason is that the mean 
