. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. SWEDISH TOWNS. 13^ tance those of Falun; and on the nortli-wcst is the famous Finspâng cannon foundry, situated in a romantic district, remarkable for its steep cliffs rising abruptly above the Norrkoping plain. Moiala, at the outlet of the river from Lake Wetter, is also a manufacturing town, and in the same district are the two famous towns of Linkôping and Jônk'ôping, the former, near which Berzelius was born, now communicating with the sea through a canal, the latter an industrial place lying between Lakes Wetter and Munksjon. Farther east, ne
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. SWEDISH TOWNS. 13^ tance those of Falun; and on the nortli-wcst is the famous Finspâng cannon foundry, situated in a romantic district, remarkable for its steep cliffs rising abruptly above the Norrkoping plain. Moiala, at the outlet of the river from Lake Wetter, is also a manufacturing town, and in the same district are the two famous towns of Linkôping and Jônk'ôping, the former, near which Berzelius was born, now communicating with the sea through a canal, the latter an industrial place lying between Lakes Wetter and Munksjon. Farther east, near the Husgvarna falls, is one of the principal métallurgie centres of Sweden, where are manuftictured lire-arms, sewing machines, and instruments of all kinds ; south-east several blast furnaces fed by Fig. 68.^NoERKoriNG and Finspang. Scale 1 : 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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