CHAPTER It. 
BOATING ADVENTURES ON THE ULEA AND 
THE TORNEO. 
In the preceding chapter I have described what are a few. 
of the characteristic features of Finland, its woods, and 
waterfalls, and lakes. , Two-fifths of the country is covered 
by lakes, a hundred of which may often be met, with 
in the course of a day’s journey, some great, some small, 
some wild or romantic in their aspect, some beautiful 
and picturesque. They constitute four or five distinct 
series or water systems, the lakes and lakelets of which 
flow one into another, and. thus pour their waters through 
successive basins into the sea. And if resembling one another 
in their peaceful features, they resemble also one another 
to some extent in their wilder aspects. There are not 
two Falls of Imatra in Finland, as there are not two Falls 
of Niagara in America, two Falls of Trollhattan in Sweden; 
two Falls like unto the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi in 
South Africa; but there are numerous rapids aud falls of 
lesser magnitude in Finland. Mention has been made 
of those of Wallin-Koski and Kiiri-Koski, not far from 
Imatra; and often elsewhere does the traveller hear of 
other Koski or falls. 
‘In some places these can be utilised as a supply of 
water-power applicable to industrial operations as is done 
in Tammerfors, in which name we have the synonymous 
Scandinavian term fors, instead of the Turanian term 
Koski.. There is here a magnificent waterfall. Dr Patter- 
son, one of the founders of the Russian Bible Society, 
travelling in Finland in 1812 on, business connected with, 
the printing of the Scriptures, passing this way, was struck 
with the facilities for driving machinery by water-power 
