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the tree stops growing, and forms at its top a tuft
of branches stretching out horizontally like those of
the stone pine in Southern Europe. But even thus
the tree is valuable.
If we wish to locate the great mass of the forests
on the map, we find them, as is natural, on the higher
ground. We cannot call Finland a mountainous
country, if we thereby mean to suggest mountains of
considerable height. At all events, it is only a
comparatively small part of the country in the north
which belongs to the mountain chain of the
Scandinavian Peninsula. The greater part of the country
has, however, an elevation of 1000 feet or more above
the level of the sea, and it is here that we find the
thickest and most valuable forests; in the north, in
the west where the great plain bordering the Gulf of
Bothnia is separated by some hilly country from the
lakes of the interior, and finally on the heights near
the Russian frontier. Not much is heard nowadays
about the chains of hills in Finland, of which the
geographers used to speak; there are no continuous
chains, but only a succession of separate hills called
“Maanselkä” or “the back of the country,” which
runs across the north, and then south-eastwards until
it crosses the Russian frontier. The “Suomenselkä,”
or “the back of Finland,” has the same characteristics;
this line runs down from the “back of the country,”
from north-east to south-west, till at Sideby it reaches
the Gulf of Bothnia, and there divides Ostrobothnia
from Satakunta. It is also lines of separate hills,
and not regular chains which run down from the
Suomenselkä into the interior, and divide the great
systems of lakes there; we find the Satakunnanselkä
in Satakunta, the Hämeenselkä in Tavastland (or
Hämeenmaa, as this district is called in Finnish), the
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