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‘II. The East Bothnia water-system, to which the greater 
part of Lapland belongs, has a declination to the Gulf of 
Bothnia, and is enclosed on the north, and the east, and 
the south, by Maanselki, The principal rivers are :— 
‘1. The Torneo, rising in the Swedish territory of 
Torneo Lapmark, receives, where it touches the boundary of 
‘the Russian dominions, the Muonio coming from the north, 
and after a course of 160 versts, upwards of a hundred 
miles, in a southerly direction, forming the boundary 
between Russia and Sweden, it falls into the sea at the 
town of Torneo. 
‘2. Kemijoki, which, flowing from a small lake on the 
heights, flows through Kemi Triisk, and flowing from the 
north-east, empties itself into the sea near the village of 
Kemi. 
‘3. The Uleistrom, which, from the aid which, in spite 
of its waterfalls, it gives to the promotion of inland 
navigation, may be reckoned as the principal river in 
East Bothnia, flows from the lake of the sane name, in 
which are collected large affluents from the Maanselka ; 
after a westerly course by Uleaborg, it falls into Ulea 
Bay. , 
oh The Kyrojoki, the largest river of the southern 
part of East Bothnia, though not to be compared with 
those in the north, empties itself into the sea after a 
north-westerly course, to the north of Wasa. 
‘Although the waters of East Bothnia empty them- 
selves by different discharges, the principal water-systems 
of South Finland have this as their characteristic, that 
a number, perhaps hundreds, of lakes united together in 
one common water-course, through this send their waters 
to the sea. 
‘III. The water-system of Satakunda, or Bjoerneborgs 
Lan, is, like the last-mentioned, bounded on the north, the 
east, and the south by mountain ranges, and has its inclina- 
tion towards the Gulf of Bothnia. It commences in lat. 
63°50’ in the most northerly portion of Satakunda belonging 
