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noon, in both places the minimum is at 6 pM. At Chris- 
tiania the lowest amplitude is 0°5 mm.; the maximum 
occurs a little before mid-day, the minimum at 6 p.m. The 
secondary noturnal maximum and minimum there are 
very marked. 
The Highlands of Norway are more frequently high- 
lying plateaux designated fjelds,* than in outline what’ is 
generally suggested to an English reader by the designa- 
tion mountains ; but mountains they are. , 
‘In the northern district of Scandinavia,’ says Forbes, 
“where the théory of a ridge is in some respects less 
maccurate than in the south, its insufficiency was clearly 
discovered by the difficulty or impossibility of defining the 
Tine of demarcation between Norway and Sweden by that 
of a continuous watershed. Such a ridge, if it exist at all, 
must be held in some cases to run up to the very coast of 
Norway, or even beyond it, into the islands; in otlier 
places it dies out altogether, and is resumed with a change 
of direction. 
‘The present boundary between Norway. and Sweden 
was defined by a joint commission of engineers in the 
middle of the last century, and is represented on nearly 
‘every map as the exact direction ofa slightly zig-zag chain 
of mountains called the Kjglen, or Kelen. This is assumed 
in most maps to be prolonged along the border of the two 
countries considerably to the south-east of Trondhjem 
(Droutheim), and it was even long maintained that a 
mountain mass existed there of prodigious elevation, from 
which a great many rivers, particularly the Glommen, the 
Gota, and the Dal, take their rise. The height of this 
fabulous mountain was even assumed to be 12,000 feet. 
It is, however, only a slight and lower extension ‘of the 
Dovre fjeld beyond the deep valley of the Glommen, and 
its greatest height does not amount to 5000 feet.’ 
~ * By Dr Broch there ia given an orographic table, in which is supplied tabulated 
information in regard to the different mountain chains and mountain plateaux of Nor- 
way, the principal and the secondary regions, and divisions of these, and the names and 
altitudes of between five and six hundred of the more elevated peaks. 
