GEEAT EIYEES OF FINLAND. 



Journey to Copenhagen and Stockholm Voyage to Helsingfors Uleaborg 

 Fishing in the lijoki Fishing in the Kemi Fishing in the Tornea 

 Fishing in the Uleo How to reach Finland. 



THE storm which, reached the shores of England on 

 the 19th of May had caught us as we were leaving 

 Hamburg ; had pursued us across the North Sea to 

 Copenhagen, making that picturesque town a very 

 damp and windy one ; had succeeded in curtailing our 

 stay there and blowing us across the straits to Malmo, 

 and had rendered even the snug Swedish railway 

 carriages incapable of excluding the raindrops on the 

 windward side ; and was finally blowing a whole gale 

 as we waited on the Norrbro at Stockholm, undecided 

 whether to embark upon the very diminutive steamer, 

 which was to cross that same night to Finland, or no. 

 The wavering balance of inclination at length kicked 

 the beam in favour of a boat at least four and a quarter 

 sizes larger, sailing the next day direct to Helsingfors. 

 The wind departed, together with the smaller of the 

 two steamers, leaving a universal calm, the same 

 evening, annoying and beautiful to contemplate. A 

 slight acquaintance with the archipelago of the million 

 islands which divides the twin Gulfs of Bothnia and 

 of Finland, into which the Baltic bifurcates, would 

 have informed one what a wonderfully intricate and 



