Just as in Umeä Lappmark, I saw here high sandy heaths sloping steeply down to the river. They were divided into sections, so to speak, by ditches that cut across them. The river had eaten away the sides so that the edge was often vertical and revealed strata of light-coloured sandy soil which, since it lies horizontally, I assume to have been scoured from the rocks in the mountains during the Flood. Now that the water has begun to subside, the main stream is following its usual course and the water in the secondary channel has dried up leaving small residual streams with gaps between them.