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7. Lat. 61*6. Justedals Brasen, east side, near Lodals- 

 kaabe (Von Buch and Bohr), mean 5460 English feet. 



8. Lat. 61°6. Storhougen, between Lyster and Justedal 

 (Keilhau), 5000 French, or 5330 English feet. 



9. Lat. 61°*6. In the centre of the chain, near Otta-vand 

 (Broch), 4610 Rhenish, or 4750 English feet. 



10. Lat. 62°-2. Dovre-field, according to Naumann, 5200 

 Rhenish, or 5360 English feet. Dovre-field, guessed by Von 

 Buch at 1582 metres, or 5109 English feet. 



11. Lat. 67°*1. Sulitelma, on the frontier of Norway, and 

 Swedish Lapland. Wahlenberg is the sole authority. As 

 reported by Von Buch, the snow line is at 1169 metres, or 

 3840 English feet ; but there seems to be some mistake, for 

 in Wahlenberg's Flora Lapponica, it is expressly said (In- 

 trod.,p. xl.), that the summit of the mountain is 5796 French 

 feet above the sea, and 2600 above the snow line, leaving, 

 therefore, almost 3200 French feet for the height of the lat- 

 ter. Von Buch's 1169 metres* is equivalent to 3600 French 

 feet. Wahlenberg, in another place, assigns 3300 French 

 feet as the general height of the snow line in Lapland (p. 

 xxxv.) M. Durocher gives 1169 metres as the height (always 

 on Wahlenberg's authority) in the Expedition du Nord, and 

 1010 metres = 3109 French feet, in his paper in the Annates 

 des Mines (1847, vol. xii., p. 79), which corresponds with none 

 of the others. Under these circumstances, we must take 

 "Wahlenberg's own authority, and conclude that the level of 

 the snow line at Sulitelma is probably — 



On the west, or Norway side, 3200 French ■= 3410 English feet. 

 On the east, or Lapland side, 3300 French = 3520 English feet. 



12. Lat. 70°. At Alten in Finmarken, which is somewhat 

 removed from the immediate influence of the sea, the snow 

 line is fixed by Von Buch at 1060 metres, or 3480 feet. But 

 this being an insulated summit (Storvands-field), is hardly 



* See his Memoir on the Snow line in Norway, in the Annates de Chemie, 

 already cited. It is an abstract of a larger essay to be found in the French 

 translation by Eyries of his Journey in Norway, and in Gilbert's Annals for 

 1812. See also Thomson's Annals of Philosophy, vol. iii., for a translation. 



