74 TEN YEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



The largest rivers in the north of the country are the 

 Tornea River, 42 Swedish miles long ; Umea and Lulea River, 

 38; Pitea River, 31; Skelleffcea, 34; Angerman River, 35; 

 Liusnan, 32. All these flow into the Baltic. 



There is not a river of any size in the south of the country. 

 The great Tana River, which divides Sweden from Nor- 

 wegian Lapland, is a magnificent stream, and flows into the 

 Polar Sea, a little to the east of the North Cape. The 

 scenery of some of the rivers, especially in the far north, is 

 magnificent. 



The two principal rivers running through the middle 

 of the country, are the Klar and the Dal. 



The Dal rises on the Norwegian fells, flows for about 

 forty- two Swedish miles, in an easterly direction, through the 

 grandest and most picturesque tracts of Sweden, and enters 

 the Bothnia at Gefle. The Klar also rises in the same 

 fells, but a little more to the south, flows through Wermland 

 in a southerly direction for about thirty Swedish miles, and 

 enters the Lake Wener at Carlstad. The outlet of the 

 Wener is at Wenersborg, twelve Swedish miles to the 

 south by the River Gotha, which runs down to Gothenburg, 

 seven Swedish miles from Wenersborg. Thus the Klar 

 River may be said to be forty-nine Swedish miles long, or the 

 longest river in Sweden. The meadows both on the sides of 

 the Gotha and the Wener, are, in some places, rich and fertile, 

 but very liable to flooding. The country on the sides, and 

 to the south of the Wener is well peopled. 



The celebrated falls and sluices of Trollhatta are on the 

 Gotha River, about six Swedish miles from Gothenburg. This 

 fall is altogether 111 feet from top to bottom, but it is 

 divided into several falls, its length being in all 600 fathoms. 

 It is a grand fall, and owes quite as much to the romantic 

 scenery which overhangs them, as to the magnitude of 

 the falls themselves. The traveller on the steamboat has much 

 to admire here, both in the natural grandeur of the falls and 

 in the ingenuity of man as shown in the formation of the 

 sluices, which run parrallel to them, in order to convey 

 vessels from the bottom to Lake Wener above; with- 



