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CONFIGURATION.
5
A) The Highland District of Upper Sweden. This embraces by far
the greater part of Sweden, inasmuch as it must be considered to include
not only the whole of Norrland but also Dalarne and Värmland as well
as the northern part of Dalsland. It should, however, be noted that Ihe
Coast District of northernmost Sweden bears a considerable resemblance
in orographical features to the Lowlands of Central Sweden.
One of the chief physical features of North Sweden is 1 lie marked
contrast. on the one hand, between the numerous, in comparison to their length
very broad, river-valleys which traverse the districts in question from
N\Y to SE. and, on the oilier hand, the extensive mountain and forest
land occupying the country between the rivers (Vide Hydrography).
Photo. Ludvig Wästfelt,
Jokkmokk.
Lake Laitaure, Lappland.
Between the main valleys of the principal rivers, which can be followed
right up into the heart of the Scandinavian mountain chain, there are
also a number of less considerable streams and rivers that take their rise
in the wooded districts nearer the coast.
Although the dissimilarity in character between the river-valleys and
the intervening higher lands is very manifest, the resemblance between
the former on the one hand and the latter on the other in the various
parts of Northern Sweden is very great. This is far from being the case,
however, if one traverses the country from east to west from the Baltic
to the mountains. Three belts running in the longitudinal direction of
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