The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TIIE KJOLEN UPLANDS. 77traps have spread above the sedimentary formations of Gotland. The southernelevations form altogether a very irregular table-land, culminating with a roundedcrest some IS miles south of Lake Wetter.Near it rises the Taberg (1,024 feet),whose steep sides are composed entirely of magnetic iron, containing nearly onethirdof pure metal. A few isolated hills are scattered along the south coast ofSweden, amongst them the Silurian promontory of Kullen (616 feet), at thenorthern entrance of the Sound.West of the Southern Xjolen rises the Trondhjem plateau, with a mean elevationof 3,300 feet in the centre, and sloping gently towards the north and south. Itis crossed at an elevation of 2,200 feet by the railway between Christiania andTrondhjem. All the rest of the country west of it is an elevated region, brokentowards the coast by abrupt escarpments. Here are the highest summits of thepeninsula and its most extensive fjeldene, or snow-fields, each fringed by glaciersFig. 35.Kvllen Headland.Scale 1 : 320,000.(brae), overlooked by eminences presenting the varied forms of teeth (tind), horns,ridges (egg), or croups (hoi, nut). There are several distinct masses, such asthe Dovre, a name often applied to the whole plateau, and above which rises theSnehastten (7,570 feet), long erroneously regarded as the highest point in Norway.To the south are the Romsdal Alps, the Langfjelde, and the Jotunfjelde, or " GiantMountains" (S,550 feet), the culminating point of the peninsula. Farther westextends the Justedal, the largest snow-field in Europe, with an area of 360 squaremiles, encircled by inaccessible rocks, and ever} T where skirted by glaciers. South ofthe Hardanger-fiord stretches another great snow-field, the Folgefond, 110 squaremiles in extent, besides the Hardangervidde, the Oplande, and the Saetersdal,terminating at the Naze.In this southern region the snow-line rises to about 4,500 feet, and roundabout the Justedal are the largest and best-known glaciers of Norway. These