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SCANDINAVIA. 



The Scandinavian Rivers. 



The very rivers, fed by these countless lakes, consist mostly of chains of lakes 

 varying in form and size, now confined between narrow walls, now expanding into 

 broad sheets of water. All of them send down very large volumes compared with 



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the area of their drainage. This is due partly to the heavy rainfall along the 

 western seaboard and about their sources, partly to their rocky beds allowing of 

 little or no infiltration, and partly to the relatively slight evaporation in this moist 

 climate. Compared with France, Scandinavia discharges a far greater quantity 

 of water into the sea, as may be judged from the amount sent down by the few 

 rivers whose volume has already been estimated. Still there are no such majestic 



