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the river fill its former valley, now crossed by the railway from Christiania to 

 Stockholm, By a singular coincidence the two rivers flowing east of the Glommen 

 have also been diverted to the right, now discharging into Lake "Wener through 

 beds belonging originally to other streams. The Fryken joined the lake at the 

 point where is now the town of Karlstad, but its present junction lies some 12 

 miles farther westwards. The Klar-elf, now usurping the old bed of the Fryken, 

 flowed through a small lacustrine valley forming a south-eastern continuation of 



Fig. 51. — The Telemark Lakes. 

 Scale 1 : 460,000. 



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its upper valley. This westward diversion of three parallel streams seems to point 

 at a lateral pressure, doubtless due to a slight perturbation of the crust. In the 

 same way the Vistula, the Elbe, and the Oder have deviated from their original 

 beds. 



The Norrland rivers, north of the Dal, are remarkable for the striking uniformity 

 of their general features and volume. They also closely resemble each other in 

 the extent of their drainage, the nature of the soil watered by them, and the 



