. The earth and its inhabitants .. . the whole year, this line embraces the interior of the Norwegian Finmark and the Swedish Norbotten, and farther south the Dovre plateau, besides some other uplands about Roros, all of which regions are consequently almost uninhabitable. The population naturally gravitates to the warmer districts, and few houses are found higher up than 2,000 feet, while summer chalets are seldom met beyond 3,000 feet. Yet here and there valleys are thinly peopled which might seem to

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