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lake so concealed but geese and ducks have chosen it for 

 their home, and found there a free dwelling place/ 



Everywhere throughout the districts which I traversed 

 I found the mounds, and hillocks, and hills, covered with 

 wood most commonly young wood. I would scarcely be 

 warranted to call it coppice, but it was yielding firewood 

 and not timber. 



Excepting in the extreme north, and there only to a 

 limited extent, are there any districts which can be 

 characterised as treeless. The region through which I 

 passed, and that along a great deal of the west coast, are 

 deficient in timber trees, but trees producing firewood are 

 not a wanting. More inland on the west coast between the 

 littoral land and that of the lake district which I visited 

 at this time, there is a deficiency of timber trees, and 

 the little firewood there is, is comparatively worthless. But 

 in the higher lying land, from 200 to 400 feet above the 

 level of the sea, both firewood and timber trees are 

 abundant. 



Of the land thus wooded there are : 



Of the last mentioned, - 15,785,000 tunnland. 



Of the first mentioned, - 16,759,000 



Of the second, - 9,456,000 



In all, - - 42,000,000 



Following the course of rivers all along the coast from 

 St. Petersburg to Torneo agriculture prevails, and studded 

 over the southern half of the land in innumerable 

 localities it is practised. 



It is stated that in Finland there are : 



Of woodlands, - - - 42,000,000 tunnland 



Of land incapable of tillage, - 19,259,132 



Of water, - - 6,115,392 



Of meadow land, - - 5,817,270 



Carried forward, 73,191,794 

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