. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Depth under 27 i'athoms. 27 to 54 Fathoms 54 to 108 Fathoms. 20 Miles. Over 108 Fathoms. continuous mass of ice. Even the channel separating them from the Swedish coast is sometimes frozen, and in 1809 a Cossack troop was able to gallop across and surprise the town of Grisselhamn. Wolves also cross over in severe seasons, and ravage the inhabited islands, numbering altogether about eighty. The southern shores of Finland are also cut off" from the deep waters by numerous isles and reefs, which greatly obstruct navigation. In the middle of the gulf itsel
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Depth under 27 i'athoms. 27 to 54 Fathoms 54 to 108 Fathoms. 20 Miles. Over 108 Fathoms. continuous mass of ice. Even the channel separating them from the Swedish coast is sometimes frozen, and in 1809 a Cossack troop was able to gallop across and surprise the town of Grisselhamn. Wolves also cross over in severe seasons, and ravage the inhabited islands, numbering altogether about eighty. The southern shores of Finland are also cut off" from the deep waters by numerous isles and reefs, which greatly obstruct navigation. In the middle of the gulf itself there are also some rocks, and even two islands—Hogland, or Suur-saari (" Great Island "), and Laven-saari. Hogland lies exactly at the point where the water begins to become brackish, so that it is drinkable on the east, but not on the west side, where it contains 47 par cent, of salt. This hilly island, consisting entirely of crystalline rocks, granite, diorite, quartz, and porphyry, seems to have made its appearance in recent times, though joossessing the same batrachian fauna us Finland, with which it is connected by ice almost every winter.
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