LAKE ONEGA. 25 
The Olonetz chain of mountains, on the confines of the 
Russian Government of the same name and of Finland, 
constitute part of the watershed whence the waters flow 
on the one side into the Baltic, and on the other into the 
White Sea. In continuation of this chain on the north- 
west are the mountains of Maanselki, extending from 
Finland to Uleaborg, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia; 
and again, on the north-west of these, they are connected 
with the Dofrines or Dovre-field, a name sometimes given 
to the whole Scandinavian mountain system, but more 
explicitly in application to that portion which, in latitude 
62°, 63) N., extends from Cape Stadtnaes to the Sylt- 
Field, or Syll-Fiellen, in Norway, throughout its length, 
avis the bason of the Baltic from that of the White 
ea. 
The Government of Olonetz, bounded on the west by 
the Grand Duchy of Finland and Lake Ladoga, is bounded 
on the north and north-east by the Government of Arch- 
angel, on the south-east by that of Vologda, on the south 
by that of Novogorod, and on the south-west by that of 
St. Petersburg ; it lies between 60° and 64° 30’ N. lat., and 
29° 40’ and 41° 40’ E. long., measuring 390 miles in length 
from N.W. to 8.E. and about 300 miles at its greatest 
breadth, with an area of 51,100 square miles. With the 
exception of the range of hills on its north-west boundary, 
the surface of the Government is generally level, but inter- 
spersed with undulating hills. It comprises districts form- 
ing portions of the basins of three far-separated seas—the 
White Sea, the Baltic, and the Caspian. In the first- 
mentioned, the north and east of the Government, is Lake 
Latcha, in which the Onega river and Lakes Sego and Viga 
have their sources, and in which are numerous sheets of 
water of smaller dimensions ; in the second are Lakes Onega 
and Ladoga, the principal tributaries of which are the 
Vodla and the Vitegra; and in the third is the Kovja. 
Lake Latcha is about 24 miles in length from north to 
south, and 8 in breadth. It receives the waters of the 
Soid; and gives origin to the river Onega, flowing to the 
