Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita583recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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142 SCANDINAVIA. mining district. But, like those of Cornwall, these deposits have g-reatly fallen off, and can no longer compete with those of South America and Australia. On a rocky headland projecting into Lake Runnen, near Falun, stands the house, greatly venerated by the Swedes, in which Gustavus Erichson, afterwards Gustavus I., took refuge from the Danes in 1520. Farther north-west the Dalecarlian hamlets of Leksand, Orsa, Riittvik, Vâmhus, and Mora, dotted round Lake Siljan, are the centres of extensive communes, where on feast days the peasantry gather in thousands at the camp meetings. (Mersiind, on Lake Storsjon, still farther north, is the last place deserving the name of town. It is an important station between Trondhjeni and Fig. 72.âHouse of Gustavus Vasa.
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the Gulf of Bothnia, and its port is much frequented by the boats and little steamers plying on the lake. Beyond it are nothing but hamlets and Lapp camping grounds, the most noteworthy of which is the Qvikkjokk dale, the " Paradise of Lapland," overlooked on the west by the snowy crests of Sulitelma. The seaports at the river mouths north of Gefle all resemble each other in their general appearance and in the nature of their trade. Soderhamn, Hudiksvall, Sundsvall, Hernosand, Umeà , Skellefteâ, Piteâ, Luleâ, Raneâ, Neder Kahx, ail ship tar and lumber in logs, beams, or planks, and have regidar steam communication with Stockholm. The northernmost of these ports is Baparanda, or - Aspenville," founded in 1809, when Tornea was ceded to Russia. Accordin^^ <7

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