39 6 TRAVELS THROUGH FINLAND. 
river receive a confiderable augmentation by their junction with 
another river, which has its fource among a number of lakes and 
marflies higher up than Enontekis, and bears the name of Muonio, 
till it lofes itfelf in its union with the Tornea. The latter, en¬ 
riched by the Muonio, becomes of a very confiderable fize on its 
way to the fea, as it is Hill farther increafed by the tributary 
flreams of fome rivulets which ififue from the lakes and marfhes in 
its vicinity, and at laft it empties itfelf into the gulf of Bothnia. 
Near Kengis the banks of this river are confiderably fteeper 
than about Upper Tornea, and confifl: partly of a reddifh feltfpar 
and partly of hates of a blackifli colour, w'hofe angles ftand edge¬ 
ways, with an inclination to the fouth. 
The river Tornea is in general fubjedl to three inundations; 
namely, one in fpring, caufcd by the difiolution of the ice and 
fnow on the montains ; the fecond in fummer, owdng to fudden 
and violent falls of rain; and the third in autumn, before the Let¬ 
ting in of the frofL The greatefi; breadth of this river, when its 
waters are of a mean height, is nine hundred, and its common 
breadth five hundred yards: its greateft depth is ten yards, and 
its loweft fhoal from tw r o to five feet. In winter it is frozen in 
its whole extent, and the thicknefs of the ice is from five to fome- 
fcimes eight feet. 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 
T. Gillet, Trinter, Saliibury-fquarc. 
