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configuration and .water-system.
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the different parts of North Sweden is none the less marked. That
is, however, far from being the case, if a comparison be made at
different latitudes on traversing the country from east to west. Three
belts running in the direction of the greatest extent of the country
may be easily distinguished: farthest west, mountains and a series of
great lakes; then a morainic and marshy district; and finally a region
covered by quarternary marine deposits. These belts pass into one
another, it is true, but are nevertheless, in general, clearly defined.
Valley of the Lule elf at the Porsi Rapids.
a) The Mountain and Lake Belt. The Swedish mountains constitute,
as has above been shown, one section of an extensive chain, that
occupies a part of Sweden contiguous to the Norwegian frontier, about 100
kilom, in breadth and extending from the utmost extremity of the
country in the north down to the northernmost part of Dalarne. The
district was in ancient times designated by the name Kölen, and is so still,
though that name has sometimes been incorrectly used to include also
the borderland between the two countries further south. The limits of
the alpine district to the East are in many places very clearly
marked, the mountains often rising sheer from the wooded tracts east
of them. By reason of its great age, geologically, the Swedish chain
of mountains differs in several particulars from those of Central and
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