The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

CLIMATE. 107Even in the coldest winter month parts of the seaboard maintain a temperature abovefreezing point, and at Christianssand and the Naze the glass scarcely ever fallsbelow zero. At Bergen, which is less exposed to the warm south-west winds,there are twenty-four frosty days in the year, although at Hammerfest, on theextreme north coast, a small stream never freezes. But farther inland the rest ofthe peninsula comes within the limits of the frost-line in winter. Calculated forFig. 55. Difference of Temperature between Summer and Winter.According to Mohn.EofP o-the whole year, this line embraces the interior of the Norwegian Finmark andthe Swedish Norbotten, and farther south the Dovre plateau, besides some otheruplands about Roros, all of which regions are consequently almost uninhabitable.The population naturally gravitates to the warmer districts, and few housesare found higher up than 2,000 feet, while summer chalets are seldom met beyond3,000 feet. Yet here and there valleys are thinly peopled which might seem to