Rivers
The rivers
The book names as the most noted rivers those from which the lappmarks are named: Umeao, Pitheao, Luhleao, Torneao, and Kimeao. They rise in the mountains of Norway and run into the Bothnian Sea. At the falls they are not navigable. One fall on the Lule river the book calls Niometsaski, a hare’s leap, because the river runs between two mountains so narrowly that a hare might leap over. The longer list of falls and lakes is not copied. The spellings are the book’s own. (Schefferus 1674)
The lakes
Near Kemi the book names Enarefræsk. Tornæus says no inhabitant lived long enough to survey its islands. Some small marshes full of fish have, the book says, two channels, and they are called Suino, holy. Fouling them was counted a sin. The book’s talk of a spirit stays off this page. (Schefferus 1674)