. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The Bunghers Chamber. FINLAND 73 —-I have ever seen, our post-offices in the great provincial townsof England, where the whole of Helsingfors would be but a parish,being but barns in comparison; and on the table in my sitting-room at the Hotel Kamp was a telephone by which I could con-verse with all parts of Finland. All these things are the signsof good citizenship, the more to be admired as it has grown upon. Finlands Love for Alexander II. The anniversary of his assassin
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The Bunghers Chamber. FINLAND 73 —-I have ever seen, our post-offices in the great provincial townsof England, where the whole of Helsingfors would be but a parish,being but barns in comparison; and on the table in my sitting-room at the Hotel Kamp was a telephone by which I could con-verse with all parts of Finland. All these things are the signsof good citizenship, the more to be admired as it has grown upon. Finlands Love for Alexander II. The anniversary of his assassination. no rich soil of unlimited natural resources and vast easily acquiredwealth, but has been cultivated, like the Spartan virtues of orig-inal New England, in the crevices of the rocks. What the Finns have accomplished, however, cannot beadequately appreciated without a comparison of certain extraor- 74 ALL THE RUSSIAS dinary statistics of land and people. The area of Finland is373,000 square kilometres, of which as many as 41,000 are inlandwater. No fewer than 250 rivers flow into the Baltic. And onlytwenty-eight per cent, of the superficial area of the country pos-sesses a population of more than ten souls to the square is, seventy-two per cent.—say three-quarters, of Finland—?is virtually uninhabited, while the remaining quarter has a densityof only inhabitants. At the same date as these statistics theneighbouring countries of Denmark had 60 inhabitants to thesquare kilometre, Russian Poland
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