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FLOATING.
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rivers in Norrland and Dalarne, whose sources are in the high mountain
ranges, have such a durable supply of water, owing to the melting
snow on the mountains, that floating can, as a rule, be carried on
all through summer. With regard to the water-system of Southern
Sweden used for floating, as well as to the smaller rivers and
tributaries of Northern Sweden, where the supply of water is only sufficient
during the time of the spring floods, the lakes and mountain tarns
through which they run have frequently, by means of relatively cheap
dams, been transformed into adjustable water-reservoirs in the service
of the floating.
Floating-way.
There is a distinction made between public and private floating-way. Nearly
all main waters in Northern Sweden are public floating-ways, and also many of
the tributaries. Private floating-ways now occur almost exclusively in such cases
where all the forests, from which timber is to be floated down the water-courses,
belong to only one owner. Public floating-ways are constructed, after applying
to the Governor of the Län, by one or several of the forest owners interested
therein. The site of the floating-way is then inspected by a functionary appointed
by the Governor of the Län. The strand owners and others whose interests
may be affected by the proposed regulation of the water-way having now been
consulted, it is decided what constructions are to be made, what amortization
should be paid in consequence thereof, about the division of the floating-course
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