BOATING ADVENTURES. 4) 
low and covered with forest, unless, cleared for a farm ’— 
of river-banks. ‘low and covered with birch, fir, and. 
young moss’—of entering the true Torneo, coming from, 
the west, a larger river than was the branch they had 
descended. , 
‘Sept. 14, At twelve we reached Gatiloski rapid. It is - 
magnificent. The throat, of the pool is very rocky, narrow, . 
and deep. I could have thrown a stone over it. In the. 
middle the river gets wider, and the boat shoots into 
glorious boiling pools, with still casts made for salmon. 
Near the tail the river divides. The smaller branch takes 
a leap of 10 or 12 feet; the main stream thunders down 
with a terrific roar, and in the middle rises in waves 10 
feet high at least. Our boat slipped down the side, 
scraping salmon-stages, from which the Finns spear great 
numbers of running fish, We got down safe and sound, 
but well drenched as usual. 
*‘ At 1.50 we landed the pilot of the rapid, and I tried a 
cast for a salmon, but all in vain. From the rapid the 
river is smooth and broad for a long way. 
‘Sept. 15. The river is like a great lake, three miles 
wide At 10.80 we reached Matagoski, the last and 
largest rapid. The whole river, which had a good stream 
where three miles wide, pours, with the speed of a mill- 
race, through a gap in a rock step 300 yards wide. The 
throat of the pool is like the escape of the Ness from Loch 
Ness, but everything about it is magnificent, except the 
hills. It was frightful to look back at some of the places 
we passed, The rapid is about five miles long. About as 
much water as flows past Bonn runs like a mill-race most 
of the way, amongst boulders of the usual pattern. 
‘The steersman was very old, and sent us slap over one 
big stone, but we slid quietly into the river on the other 
side, and were none the worse. That night we got to 
Haparanda, close to the Gulf of Bothnia, and found our- 
selves at the end of a road which leads to Stockholm,’ 
Thither he and his fellow-traveller proceeded by land. 
