river receive a conliderable augmentation by their junction with
another river, which has its fource among a number o f lakes and
marihes higher-up than Enontekis, and bears the name o f Muonio,
till it lofes itielf in its union with the Tornea. T h e latter, enriched
by the Muonio, becomes o f a very confiderable fize on its
way to the fea, as it is Hill farther increafed by the tributary
ftreams o f fome rivulets which iifue from the lakes and marihes in
its vicinity, and at laft it empties itielf into the gulf o f Bothnia.
Near Kengis the banks o f this river are confiderably fteeper
than about Upper Tornea, and confift partly o f a reddilh feltfpar
and partly o f flates o f a blackiih colour, whole angles Hand edgeways,
with an inclination to the louth.
The river Tornea is in general lubjedt to three inundations;
namely, one in fpring, caufed by the diffolution o f the ice and
fnow on the montains; the fecond in fummer, owing to fudden
and violent falls o f rain ; and the third in autumn, before the letting
in o f the froft. T he greateft breadth o f this river, when its
waters are o f a mean height, is nine hundred, and its common
breadth five hundred yards: its greateft depth is ten yards, and
its loweft lhoa! from two to five feet. In winter it is frozen in
its whole extent, and the thicknels o f the ice is from five to fome-
times eight feet.
END OF TH E F IR S T VO LUM E .
T« Gillet, Printer, Saliibury-fquarc.