The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

EIVEKS. 101amount of their rainfall. Thus, going northwards, the Ljusna, Ljungan, Indals,Angennan, Urnea,, Skellefte;1, Pitefi, Luleil, Kalix, and Tornea- all discharge intothe Gulf of Bothnia an equal volume of water, estimated at upwards of 70,000 cubicfeet. The current of each is prolonged far into the sea, whose waters, however,52. The Tybi-fiord.Scale 1 : 250,000.Tfr/k-^fjprc/Iof-Gare so slightly saline that the contrast is here scarcely noticed, which is at oncedetected at the mouths of the Gcita and Glommen.The discharge of the Scandinavian rivers is mostly better regulated than thatof the continental streams, a result due to the lakes which are traversed in theircourse, and which equalise the fioodings. At the end of April and in May themelting snows, and in autumn the heavy rains brought by the west winds, raisevol. v. I