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Glommen

the largest river in Norway, issuing from Lake Aursund, at 2,339 feet above sea-level, and winding 350 miles to the Skager Rack at Fred-verted into a cathedral at the Reformaerikstad. Its course is interrupted by frequent waterfalls, the last, with a descent of 74 feet, being the Sarpsfos, 7 miles from the mouth. It is only navigable a few miles above and below Sarpsfos. Its most important affluent is the Vormen from Lake Mjösen.

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