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20 i. physical geography of sweden.
sists of limestone röck, bare of trees and resembling steppes; it has
been named Alfvaret. The northern parts of Gotland and Öland and
the island called Gotska Sandön present very fine sand-dune scenery.
C) From a geographical point of view, the Småland Highland»
include all the land lying above the level of the marine deposits, not
only in Småland itself, but also in South Vestergötland, Halland, North
Skåne, and Blekinge. This region shows such a complete resemblance
in all respects to the middle belt in Upper Sweden (that of the morainic
ground and the marshes), that it is scarcely necessary to give any
minute description of it. As may be seen by the map, p. 8, nearly the whole
of the district lies above 100 m. in elevation, and more than half of it,
chiefly in the central and eastern portions, is upwards of 200 m. high.
The loftiest points are Ekbacken (358 m.) east of Ulricehamn, and
Tomtabacken (377 m.) south-west of Nässjö.
At Tenhult in the Småland Highlands.
The Småland Highlands may be regarded as a direct continuation
of the continental plateau of Upper Sweden, from which they are cut
off by the lowlands of Central Sweden. The river-valleys are not
so extensive, certainly, nor are they excavated into the primitive röck —
found here too — so deeply as in Norrland, nevertheless they are of
considerable size. The basal röck is almost everywhere covered by a thin
morainic gravel, little adapted for agriculture; intervening between its
loftier sections very extensive mosses occur. When journeying south by
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