. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5 Miles. the famous cres of the Taherrj ; lastly, on the shores of Lake IMunksjon, the largest match factory in the world," whose produce has penetrated to the South Sea Islands and the interior of China. In 187G there were here employed 1,800 hands, who produced 200,000,000 of boxes, or about twenty billions of matches, valued at about £160,000, and using up entire forests. In an island of Lake Wetter is the old royal residence of Wising, and to the north-west, between the two great lakes, lies Skara, which boasts of being the oldest town in Sweden. *
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5 Miles. the famous cres of the Taherrj ; lastly, on the shores of Lake IMunksjon, the largest match factory in the world," whose produce has penetrated to the South Sea Islands and the interior of China. In 187G there were here employed 1,800 hands, who produced 200,000,000 of boxes, or about twenty billions of matches, valued at about £160,000, and using up entire forests. In an island of Lake Wetter is the old royal residence of Wising, and to the north-west, between the two great lakes, lies Skara, which boasts of being the oldest town in Sweden. * TSTow exceeded by that of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, , which paid (1879) a duty of £G0,000, and consumed 2,(i00,000 cubic feet of timber the same vear.
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