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able at the centre of the stream, the boat having to be 

 poled down near the edge. 



The distance from Lake Paijanne to the sea by the 

 river Kymmene is 155 versts (one verst being about a 

 thousand yards) with a drop of 247 feet. There is one 

 waterfall only, near the sea, at Hogfors, but salmon 

 can ascend by another branch of the river, to a point 

 above the railway line, where there are some steep 

 rapids which prevent their passing. A large amount 

 of salmon are caught in traps placed along the edge of 

 the river, especially at Anzala, twenty versts from the 

 railway, the estate of Prince Menshikov. The angling 

 for salmon, for which permission would be readily ac- 

 corded, would be fairly good if the right kind of bait 

 were used, though we had no time to investigate the 

 river further, and the only English we met who had 

 done so had not been successful during their passing 

 visit beyond taking smaller fish of other kinds. 



We next took train to Tammerfors, which is the 

 Manchester of Finland, owing to there being five large 

 manufactories of different kinds ; one large cotton-mill 

 employing four English overseers, and a flax-mill em- 

 ploying one Englishman. The only one we saw and 

 spoke to knew absolutely nothing of the country round, 

 not even the name of the river whose water-power sup- 

 plies the means, in summer, of working these mills, 

 though he had been here for six years. But perhaps 

 it only implied that his attention had been so centred 

 upon his business that he had found none to waste 

 upon any external objects. 



