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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Torne'a

A lake, or rather a river of Sweden, which rises from a lake in Lapland, and runs into the Gulf of Bothnia, at the town called Torne'a or Tornë.

“Still pressing on beyond Tornea's lake.”

Thomson: Winter

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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