124 FokRESTRY OF NORWAY. 
. Ina paragraph preceding this he says:—‘ Thus the 
general surface of the country is in reality composed of 
elevated and barren table-lands. The proportion of arable 
Jand (land which might be tilled) to the entire extent of: 
Norway, is not, according to the competent authority of 
Professor Munch, more than 1 to 10; and if we exclude a 
few ‘local enlargements of the plains near the capital, it 
would not even exceed 1 to 100.. By a rude estimate in’ 
Professor Keilan’s map, I find that the portion of the sur- 
face of Norway south of the Trondhjem fiord, which exceeds 
3000 feet above the level of the sea, amounts to very 
nearly 40 per cent. of the whole ; and when it is recollected: 
that only one summit exceeds 8000 feet, and that the 
spaces exceeding 6000 are almost inappreciable on the 
map, it will be more clearly understood how completely. 
the mountains have the character of table-lands, whose 
average height probably rather falls short of than exceeds 
4000 feet.’* 
Detailed information in regard to all the mountain 
systems is supplied by Dr Broch. Passing over his state- 
ments in regard to those in western and northern Norway 
we find him stating in regard to the mountain chains, 
plateaux, and masses, in southern Norway, after having 
described them with similar details, that of these, the Dron- 
theim plateau, the Dovre field, &c., constitute a remark- 
able whole in regard to physical and orographic character. 
Cut up almost to infinity, belonging at once to the east, to 
the west, and to the north of the country, they occupy 
almost half of the portion of Norway situated between 
the country to the south of Drontheim and of the valley” 
of the Levanger to Jemtland in Sweden. These mountains 
thus cover very nearly the fourth part of the whole super- 
ficies.of Norway. They reunite in a continuous mountain 
mass, the whole of which by the south of this limit rises 
more than 600 metres, 2000 feet, above the level of the sea, 
* These estimates refer to Rhenish or German feet, which are about 3 por cent. larger 
than English feet. - E 
