48 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



to Lan Wasa, on the boundary of East Bothnia, forms the 

 great Lake Estari, flows through a great many other lakes 

 connected with each other, sometimes by rapids, some- 

 times by short connecting passages. Amongst these lakes 

 may be mentioned the Toehwesi, the largest of the whole: it 

 receives from the north-east the waters of the Keurunselka 

 an 1 its tributaries; and at the point where the boundaries 

 of Lakes Wasa, Abo, an 1 Twastehus me?t, uniting with the 

 Lake Ruowesi, and by several other lakes and connect- 

 ing reaches of water, it pours its waters into the large and 

 noble Lake Nosijeorivi, situated some 316 feet above the 

 level of the sea; and this again empties itself into the 

 Pyhajarivi, or Holy Lake, at the town of Tammertors, by 

 a waterfall upwards of 100 feet in height, but over which 

 the waters pour in a continuous, unbroken sheet, falling 

 perpendicularly throughout that height. The Pyhajarivi 

 is a central lake, in which, besides the masses of water 

 spoken of as coining from the north, there meet all the 

 north-eastern, eastern, and south-eastern waters of the 

 district, constituting united an immense body of waters 

 which spread themselves out in immense spacious lakes, 

 amongst which are Lakes VVanaja, Langelmowesi, Roine, 

 and Mallaswesi. Uniting with itself the waters of the 

 Rautunselka, it pursues its course through several 

 torrents and small lakes, on the boundary between the 

 Governments of Abo and of Tawasthus, till it reaches the 

 southern extremity of Pyhajarivi. Out of this lake the 

 waters collected thus from the north and from the south 

 flow through the torrent Nokia into the Kulowesi, 

 strengthened by many affluents from the north, which 

 in their courses form many waterfalls, amongst others, 

 and well deserving notice, the waterfall of Kyro, or 

 Kyronkosti. 



'From the Kulowesi flows the mighty Kumostrom, 

 which is strengthened by new affluents from the north 

 and from the south, amongst others by the waters of 

 the one hundred and seventy-one lakes of the parish of 

 the Mouhjorwi, which flows in a bow -shaped bend or 



