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configuration and water-system.
9
Southern Europe. Thus, the peaks of even the highest of the Swedish
mountains have, in general, a rounded form (cf. for instance, the
figure of Areskutan, p. 6), this being principally due to the fact that
here erosive and destructive forces have had a vastly longer period
for the prosecution of their work than has been the case, for instance,
in the Swiss Alps. The protracted period during which the land was
under ice in the Glacial Epoch is another contributory cause. Only
a few peaks here and there, consisting of some specially hard and
unyielding material, mostly of an eruptive nature, have been capable of
retaining down to the present day that boldness of outline which is
generally regarded as characteristic of a mountain-top; this is the case
with the peaks named the Sylarne in South Jemtland, and with the
numerous peaks of the Sarjeksfjällen and those near the Kebnekaise
in North Lappland. Another peculiarity of the Swedish mountains is
that they are intersected by immense and very deep river-valleys,
dividing the range into distinct rock-masses; so marked are these
divisions, that it was reserved for the geological researches of the last
few decades to discover that these separate masses originally formed
one great moun,tain-ehain. A noticeable difference exists in the
character of the river-valleys on the two sides of the watershed; whereas
the rivers in Sweden descend slowly in extensive depressions towards
the sea, those in Norway flow in deep and narrow gorges, and carry
their waters down to the ocean in the space of comparatively few
miles.
Table 2. Distribution of the surface of Sweden according to height above
the sea level*
Between the
latitudes.
Total
surface.
Sq. kilom.
more than
400 meters.
Whereof (gq. kilometers) at a height
above the sea level of
400—200
meters.
JOO—100
meters.
ander
100 meters.
More
than
400 m.
In percent.
400—
200 m.
200— Under
100 m. 100 m.
69-68°............................13,800 8,690 5,110 — — 63 0 37 0! — -
;«-«:..............................34,040 1 8,500 12,900 2,640 - 54 a 37 9 78 —
i C7—66..............................41,880 17,330 10,660 7,800 6,090 41 4 25 ß I 18 6 14 5
66-65..............................41,1*0 14,460 17,070 3,130 6.500 35 1 41 5 7 6 15 8
fö-64..............................39,940 6,050 25,790 4,570 3,130 15 8 66 2: 11’6 7 9
W—63..............................33,720 9,400 11,780 6,850 5,690 27 9 34 9 203 16 9
63—62..............................32,»60 11,510 13,170 3,940 4,340 34 9 40o 119 132
62-61..............................28,800 9,810 10,790 4,210 3,990 34 0 37 5 14 6 139
61-60..............................34,350 3,000 11,240 10,120 9,990 8 7 32 7 29 5 29 l
6^-59..............................44,340 — 800 10,480 33,060 — 1 8 23 6 74 6
50—58........................38,100 — 540 5,280 32,340 — 14 13 9 84 7
5b—57..............................34,930 — 6,760 15.050 13,120 — 19 4 43 0 37 6
57-56..............................24,320 — 580 11,070 12,670 — 2’4 45 6 52 l
56-55..............................S,800 — — 400 5.460 — — 6 8 93 2
Total] 447,800 98,7JO | 127,190 | 85,540 | 130,380 22 0 | 28 4 { 19 1 30 5
• After Mr 0. Appelbeeo’s approximate calculations. a meter = 3 281 feet = 1-094
jwi A gq. kilometer = 0 386 sq. mile.
Sweden.
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