. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 20 Miles. a living species bearing witness to its former connection with the neighbouring seas, whose temperature was at that time as low as is now the Frozen Ocean. Henceforth severed from the sea by slowly widening isthmuses, the great lacustrine basins dividing Sweden into two distinct regions have continued to rise with the rest of the land. Their surface is now above sea-level, although the beds of most of them are below the surface of the Baltic, "Wener, the largest of the Scandinavian lakes, with an area one-tenth the size of all the rest togeth
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 20 Miles. a living species bearing witness to its former connection with the neighbouring seas, whose temperature was at that time as low as is now the Frozen Ocean. Henceforth severed from the sea by slowly widening isthmuses, the great lacustrine basins dividing Sweden into two distinct regions have continued to rise with the rest of the land. Their surface is now above sea-level, although the beds of most of them are below the surface of the Baltic, "Wener, the largest of the Scandinavian lakes, with an area one-tenth the size of all the rest together,* has a mean elevation of over 141 feet, with an extreme depth of 290 feet. It is thus two or three times larger than Lake Geneva, and about one-fourth the size of Ladoga. Wetter, at twice the altitude of Wener, is also deeper, measuring 413 feet, and 125 below the level of the surrounding seas. Hjelmar, lying nearer * Area in square miles :—Wener, 2,386; Wetter, 733; Malar, 668.
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