2 THE FOEEST LANDS OP FINLAND. 



In the prosecution of other works which devolved on me, 

 I was enabled, with the co-operation and help of the late 

 Dr Melartin, then Archbishop of Abo, and the encourage- 

 ment of the Minister of State for the Grand Dutchy, to 

 make arrangements for the publication of a new and 

 corrected edition of the New Testament in Finnish, and 

 for the supply of a copy of this at a low price, or if 

 necessary gratuitously, to every family in Finland. This 

 required returns of the population in every parish in the 

 country. 



During the last five-and-twenty years I have repeatedly 

 spent the summer in St. Petersburg, preaching in the 

 British and American Chapel, while one and another of 

 my successors in the pastorate sought a few months' 

 relaxation at home. And on almost all these occasions I 

 visited some part or another of Finland. 



With the knowledge thus acquired J consider I can best 

 convey to another some idea of Finland, poetically desig- 

 nated by her people, " The Land of a Thousand Lakes/' 

 and "The Last-born Daughter of the Sea," by giving a 

 sketch of a trip which I took to Kuopia, on the Sairna See, 

 in the summer of 1882. 



Ity the middle of June most of the members of the 

 church to which I was temporarily ministering had gone 

 to the country for the summer, leaving little to bo done 

 by me excepting on the Sabbaths; and to this trip I de- 

 voted one of the intervening weeks. 



