The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

'98 SCANDINAVIA.The Scandinavian Rivers.The very rivers, fed by these countless lakes, consist mostly of chains of lakesvarying in form and size, now confined between narrow walls, now expanding intobroad sheets of water. All of them send down very large volumes compared withFig. 43. Glacial Scorings in South Norway.According to Kjerulf. Scale 1 : 5,000,000.1'Ca/ie Z/ndesnxi\rBcFn,ri* v.- '-r rthe area of their drainage. This is due partly to the heavy rainfall along thewestern seaboard and about their sources, partly to their rocky beds allowing oflittle or no infiltration, and partly to the relatively slight evaporation in this moistclimate. Compared with France, Scandinavia discharges a far greater quantityof water into the sea, as may be judged from the amount sent down by the fewrivers whose volume has already been estimated. Still there are no such majestic