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there these mountaineers, floating on to be sawn up, form 
themselves into a solemn funeral procession which extends 
for miles; and it may be noticed that the course of this 
stream of floats is always longer than the course of the 
river’s bed; for the water is slowly swinging from side to 
side as it flows, and the floats show the course of the 
stream and its whirling eddies.’ 
It was from the banks of the river at the side of the fall 
that I got my best view of the cataract. Immediately 
above the fall lay moored a long raft of logs ready to be 
shot. We were informed of this before leaving Petroza- 
vodsk, and a hope was expressed that we might see it done, 
but in this we were disappointed ; and it was a disappoint- 
ment, for this is always an exciting scene. I had visited 
the locality described in the passage cited, and here was 
everything combined to produce a similar scene—the 
waterfall and the basin below. I had, however, to rest 
satisfied with imagining what the scene would have been. 
I have found few things in connection with forestry 
more exciting than incidents connected with the flotage 
of timber. 
On the Glommen, in Sweden, I have seen hundreds and 
thousands of logs floating down the river separately, to be 
collected and arranged according to the owners’ marks 
upon them at a depédt at a lower level. The breadth of 
the river, compared with the size of these logs, suggested 
the idea of some boys having emptied into a brook a 
hundred or a thousand boxes of matches, and of these 
being floating away. At any little fall of three or four 
feet, there they came tumbling down, sometimes sideways, 
sometimes slanting, and sometimes head foremost, and 
kicking up their heels in the air. Occasionally in some of 
the rivers in Norway the trees floated thus accumulate, and 
become so interlaced that further progress is impossible. 
There, as elsewhere, logs are transported from the spot 
where they are felled to the banks of the nearest stream, 
and marked with the initials of the owner. On the melt- 
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