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I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
is now 1’or the most part land. Such is the origin of those level and
well-tilled areas now to be met with in all the river-valleys of North Sweden,
where agricultural industry has thriven for many hundreds of years past.
Along the upper limit of the marine deposits extensive fields of coarse
sand have been deposited in the majority of the river-valleys; on it the
pine has found a habitat to its liking.
Photo. David Holmqvist.
Klarälven River Valley at Elshärad, Värmland.
On the right a "Nipa" (vide below, excavated in the Marine Deposits filling the bed of
the Valley.
Subsequent to the rise of the land, the rivers worked their way through
the loose deposits down to their original beds on the firm röck and
along their banks there still remain immense cuttings through sand
and loam, often some tens of meters in depth. These cuttings, which
are locally termed <eniporoften assume fantastic forms and contribute
to the picturesque beauty of the scenery, which especially in the valleys
of the Ångerman and Indal Rivers is very celebrated. Another more
striking element of beauty present in all the river-valleys of northern
Sweden is the blueness of the distant hills lining the horizon.
From the Öre River in the North to beyond the mouth of the Indal
River in the South there are to be found extending all the way down to
the coast, numerous heights, rising to some 300 or 400 (exceptionally 450)
m above the sea. Furl her south the summits are in general more inland.
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