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the Paijaanne, between the station of Lahtes and Jyvas- 

 kyla, there are six departures weekly. (3 and 4) A daily 

 communication has been established between Tavastehuis 

 and Tammerfors, and three times a-week between this last 

 town and Wisuvesi and Filppula. 



There are also lines of steamers on the Pielisjarvi, 

 between Nurmis, Lieksa, and Enaitaipale ; on the Oulu- 

 jarvi, between Kajana and Waala, &c. On the Ladoga a 

 regular line plys between Sordavala, Walamo, Kexholm, 

 Kanevitz, Schlusselburg, and St. Petersburg. 



The Saima Canal is the aquatic highway from the 

 Baltic to Lake Saima, and countless lakes or lakelets 

 beyond. The outlet of the waters is by another, a more 

 precipitous and a more circuitous course, the river Wuoksi, 

 which, after passing through several lakes and gorges in 

 the mountains, and flowing onwards in successive rapids, 

 alternating with the placid stillness of outstretched lakes, 

 finds its way to Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe, 

 having an area of 6190 square miles nearly equal to 

 that of the whole principality of Wales. 



Into this lake flow also the waters of Lake Onega, and 

 the waters of Lake Urn en, while the northern extremity 

 of Lake Onega almost connects it with Lake Sigh and the 

 White Sea; and by the Neva, which flows through St. 

 Petersburg, the waters of these lakes empty themselves 

 into the Gulf of Finland, and thus into the Baltic, and 

 thus into the German Ocean. 



The Wuoksi on its course has to traverse the mountain 

 side of Salpansfelka in a furrow 140 feet wide, Through 

 this narrow channel, about 3000 feet in length, sixty- 

 seven millions cubic feet of water force their way every 

 hour. Within the same space of time the Niagara Falls 

 pour about forty-two millions cubic feet of water into the 

 basin below, which is not two-thirds of the quantity of 

 water rushing through the rapids here, widely celebrated 

 as the Falls of Imatra. 



