Leopold von buch, who in the beginning of this century travelled through Norway as far as the North Cape, was the first who wrote about the geology of the northern part of the country (Reise durch Norwegen und Lapland, Berlin, 1810). Some years later the natural conditions of the country were examined by Vargas Bedemar. On this voyage he went as far as Varanger, and has recorded the result of his inquiries in his work “Reise nach dem hohen Norden, Frankfurth-a.-Main, 1819.” Furthermore R. Everest, who travelled through Norway to the North Cape in the years, between 1825 and 1830, has collected various notices on the mountain structure of the countries in his work entitled “Journey through Norway.”