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which springs from the coast abutment of the continent eastwards
to the continental plateau.
The boundary between these two great structural features
of the Scandinavian peninsula is perhaps most clearly marked
in Swedish Norrland, where «the Highland» (högfjällen) rises like
a distinct wall against the granite plateau of «the Woodland»
below. Farther south, in Norway, the defining line is less strongly
marked, and is not yet decidedly determined everywhere in a
geological sense. Topographically, however, a distinct step in the heights
is marked by a range of mountains which rises far above the
Woodland below, to heights, some of which are only surpassed
by mountains considerably nearer the axis of altitude, viz. Sølen,
5750 feet, Høgtind, 3920 feet, Prestkampen, 3986 feet, Synesfjeld,
4639 feet, Storrusten, 4219 feet, Norefjeld, 4951 feet, Gausta, 6178
feet, and Lifjeld, 5084 feet. And as in Norrland, the contrast is
brought prominently forward by the cessation of the great northern
Asiatic-European belt of conifers at the wall. The chief
topographic division will naturally be between the Woodland and the
Highland.
Only a small portion of the Woodland — which thus
corresponds geologically with the continent plateau — falls within the
borders of Norway. It is a district to the south-east, rising in
average height from 300 to 1500 feet, with undulating, forest-clad
hill-sides (highest summits 1000 to 2500 feet), which, from a width
of 200 miles along the frontier, rapidly dwindles along the Skagerak
towards the southern apex of the country (See Map in article
Forestry); and another district at the extreme north-east, in
Finmarken, where, however, the slightly undulating plateau, though
only five or six hundred feet in height, is very thinly clad
with forest.
The Highland we may reckon as beginning in the extreme
south-west, with a width of 60 miles within the Buknfjord, with
a plateau height that rapidly reaches 3000 feet along the almost
imperceptible axis of altitude, and with peaks of from 4000 to
4500 feet, which rapidly decrease in height only when nearing the
coast. The Highland, or the Wide Waste («vidden»), as it is here
usually called, continues towards the NNE in the direction of the
long axis of the country, with increasing height and width — up
to 150 miles — as the coast-line deviates more to the west, to the
culminating point of the Scandinavian peninsula in the Jotunheimen,
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