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causes considerable destruction. The same may be said 
of the greater part of the rivers of the prefectures of 
Nordland and of Tromso. 
‘ The Glommen is the greatest river in the Scandinavian 
peninsula, if we leave out of account the continuous or 
successive rivers in the water course of the Klarelv, the 
Venern, and the Gotely, in Sweden. The Glommen has a 
length of 567 kilometres, and a basin of 40,400 square 
kilometres. Its most important affluent is the Vormen, 
which flows from the Lake Miosen—which has for its 
principal tributary the Guldbrandslagen, which has its 
source from the Lesjeskogsvand, on the line separating 
the Guldbransdal and the Romsdal. Where it joins the 
Glommen at Naes, in Romerike, the Vormen has almost 
equal dimensions with those of the Glommen—its length 
there being 322 kilometres, and its basin measuring 
17,050 square kilometres, while the length of the Glommen 
above the confluence is 485 kilometres, with a basin of 
19,880 square kilometres. . . . A little above its 
embouchure the Glommen divides into two branches, 
the larger of which falls into the sea, traversing the town 
of Fredrikstadt, the lesser, immediately to the west of 
this.’ 
Of the wood floated on this river I have had occasion 
to give some account in a preceding chapter [ante p. 10]. 
The Dramselv, the second river in Norway, passes 
through Drammen, and falls into the Drammen fiord, a 
branch of the Christiania fiord. It is formed by the con- 
fluence of the water course of the Rands fiord and the 
Begna immediately above the Tyri fiord, in which the. 
Dramselv has its source. Above that the water course of. 
the Rands fiord. calculated by the principal river Dokka, 
flowing from the plateau of the Oplande, has a length of. 
141 kilometres, and a basin of 3710 square kilometres; 
while that of Begna, which has its source in Filefjeld, has 
a length of 193 kilometres, and a basin of 4800 square 
kilometres. A little after its issue from the Tyri fiord the 
Dramselvy receives its affluent, Hallingelv, from the Hemse- 
