Factory and industrial management . NDUSTRIAL SWEDEN Sweden covers per cent, of the area of Europe, and is, conse-quently, one of the larger countries of that continent. It is rathersmaller than France or Germany, but nearly half as large again asGreat Britain and Ireland. As an economic and industrial unit, it isconvenient to consider it as made up of three main sections, viz., INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 501 Central Sweden, or Svealand—the limits of which are indicated in theaccompanying map by dotted lines and a portion of the Gota Canal;Southern Sweden, or Gotaland; and Norrland, extending to
Factory and industrial management . NDUSTRIAL SWEDEN Sweden covers per cent, of the area of Europe, and is, conse-quently, one of the larger countries of that continent. It is rathersmaller than France or Germany, but nearly half as large again asGreat Britain and Ireland. As an economic and industrial unit, it isconvenient to consider it as made up of three main sections, viz., INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 501 Central Sweden, or Svealand—the limits of which are indicated in theaccompanying map by dotted lines and a portion of the Gota Canal;Southern Sweden, or Gotaland; and Norrland, extending to theArctic Ocean. The extreme south, the peninsula of Scania, is extremely fertile,and its people, as a result, have always devoted themselves particu-larly to the profession of agriculture. Even here, however, thanksto the favourable geographical position of the province and the wealth. VIEWS ON THE INDAL RIVER, upper one shows the Sillve Rapids and old sawmill. 502 Tim RNGINBERING MACAZlNll of its inhabilaiits, marked cliangcs have taken pkice during recentyears, with the result that Scania to-day rivals other parts of thecountry in variety of industrial interests. Immediately to the northis the v^ell-v^ooded and watered, but otherwise naturally poor, prov-ince of Smaland, beyond which, on either side of the old volcaniclake, Vettern, are the ancient seats of agriculture, Ostergothlandand Vestergothland, the fertile plains of which are broken here andthere by metalliferous hills, for the most part neglected of the pros-pector.
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