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396 TRAVELS THROUGH FINLAND.
river receive a confiderable augmentation by their junction with
another river, which has its fource among a number of lakes and
marfhes 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 ftill farther increafed by the tributary
{treams of fome rivulets which iffue 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 {teeper
than about Upper Tornea, and confift partly of a reddith felt/par
and partly of flates of a blackith colour, whofe angles ftand edge-
ways, with an inclination to the fouth.
The river Tornea is in general fubject to three inundations ;
namely, one in fpring, caufed by the diffolution of the ice and
{now on the montains; the fecond in fummer, owing to fudden
and violent falls of rain; and the third in autumn, before the fet-
ting in of the froft. The greateft 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 two to five feet. In winter it is frozen in
its whole extent, and the thicknefs of the ice is from five to fome-
times eight feet.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
T. Gillet, Printer, Salifbury-fquare.
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