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configuration and .water-system. 13
to the height of some few hundred feet. It is here that the famous
Lappland iron-ore deposits are to be found, in the hills at Gellivare,
Luossavara, Kirunavara, and other places. Further south hills are more
numerous, rendering the surface more broken in character; the highest
peaks attain an elevation of from 500 to 600 meters above sea-level.
The Klar elf at Ekshärad in Vermland. photo, dåtid Holmqvist.
The river-bed has forced ito way down through the vast marine deposits, whose boundary is seen
in the background.
The ground throughout the belt in question has approximately the
same appearance as at the close of the Glacial Epoch. The ancient
morainic deposits are spread like a coverlet over the original röck, which
consists of varieties of gneiss, granite etc.; peat-mosses are almost the
only recent formation to be found. The morainic districts are stony in
character, in places so much so, that the surface consists of unworkable
boulders. By reason of the hilly and uneven surface and the difficulty
that moisture has in making its way through the closely packed
morainic deposits, all the low-lying tracts have been liable to become
flooded; this accounts for the very large number of marshes and
peatmoss-covered stretches existing here. »On fine summer evenings», writes
Professor Högbom, »when the mists settle upon these lowlands, the heights
stand out from their midst like rocky islets from the surface of a
surrounding sea. The landscape displays a similar scene in winter, when
the wooded heights afford a contrast to the snow-clad plains around
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