Glommen, or STOR-ELV (i.e. 'great river'), the largest river in Norway, issues from Lake Aursund, at 2339 feet above sea-level, and winds 350 miles southward to the Skager Rack at Frederikstad. Its course is interrupted by frequent waterfalls, the last, with a descent of 74 feet, being the Sarpsfos, 7 miles from the mouth. Its drainage basin measures 15,926 sq. m. It is only navigable a few miles above and below Sarpsfos. Its most important affluent is the Vormen from Lake Mjösen on the right.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 254–255
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