. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 76 SCANDINAVIA. Tue Uplands. Of tlie Northern Kjolen tlie highest summit is the Sulitelraa (6,151 feet), rising above the eastern branches of the Salten-fiord within the arctic circle. It is not an isolated peak, but rather a group of crests resting on a common basis nearly 5,000 feet high, and covered with vast snow-fields, the source of several glaciers. South of this mass, and separated from it by a deep lake, rises the less elevated but more imposing Saulo, commanding an extensive view, which is limited on the west and south-west by th
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 76 SCANDINAVIA. Tue Uplands. Of tlie Northern Kjolen tlie highest summit is the Sulitelraa (6,151 feet), rising above the eastern branches of the Salten-fiord within the arctic circle. It is not an isolated peak, but rather a group of crests resting on a common basis nearly 5,000 feet high, and covered with vast snow-fields, the source of several glaciers. South of this mass, and separated from it by a deep lake, rises the less elevated but more imposing Saulo, commanding an extensive view, which is limited on the west and south-west by the vast plateau covered by the Svartisen, or " Black Glacier," 270 square miles in extent, and the largest snow-field in Northern Scandinavia. South of the river Yefsen another plateau, the Store-Borgefield, has a snow-fiekl with an area of 150 square miles, succeeded by mountains 4,500 to 5,000 feet high, beyond which the Kjolen falls, and is pierced through and through by wide channels. Here a marshy table-land, scarcely 1,500 feet high, connects two lakes, and through them Fig. 34.—Profile of the Scandinavian Highlands. Horizontal Scale X : Vertical Scale 1 : 1,600, /.indt-sn^' 300 ililes. two valleys, draining the one westwards to the Troudhjem-fiord, the other eastwards to the river Indals. Not far from this spot the ridge is crossed by its northernmost carriage road, 1,670 feet high ; and a little farther south the railway from Trondhjem to Sundsvall crosses the Kjolen at an elevation of 1,948 feet. Beyond this point the main ridge bends south-east into Sweden, gradually falling to a simple terrace, which imiDcrceptibly disappears between the Klar and Wester Dal river valleys, in the direction of Lake Wetter. This branch of the Kjolen is connected by low ridges and terraces with the Tiveden and other hills, formerly serving as the natural limit of North and South Sweden—Nordan-Skog and Sunnan-Skog, or " North Forest " and " Sou
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