The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

106 SCANDINAVIA.falling to about 20 at Christiania, Tromso, and other spots sheltered from themoist winds. Throughout Sweden, which is defended by the Scandinavianuplands from the wet quarter, the mean fall is 20 J inches, and consequently lessthan in France and the British Isles. By a singular contrast the snow-linedescends much lower on the western than the eastern slopes of the Folgefondand Justedal highlands, the fact being due to the abundance of moisture broughtFig. 54. Thermic Isabxormals foe the Year.According to Mohn.by the west and south-west winds. But going northwards the snow-line fallsuniformly from 4,000 or 5,000 feet on either side of the Folgefond, and to 3,000,or even 2,400, on the mountains about North Cape.The isothermal lines, determined by systematic observation at the fifty-threeNorwegian and twenty-nine Swedish meteorological stations, present in summer andwinter the same general form. They run nearly parallel on the west coast, describingtheir principal curve towards the south-west from Trondhjem to Christiania.