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SCANDINAVIA. 



Canal, Avhose sluices, rising in successive stages on tlie slope of the mountain, 

 resemble the steps of some giant stairs. "Wenersborg, which communicates by 

 this canal and the river with Goteborg, is also connected by a railway with the 

 port of Uddevalla, and on the south-east with the general Swedish railway 

 system by a line passing through the gorge between the heights of Halleborg and 

 Ilunneborg. 



South of Goteborg the chief ports on the Kattegat are Kongsbacka, Warberg, 

 and Falkenberg. Habnstad, capital of Halland, at the mouth of the Nissa, still 



Fig. 66. — Landskrona. 

 Scale 1 : 35,0OC. 



Binks. 



Dpp*h under 2J 

 Fathoms. 



Half a Mile. 



farther south, was formerly one of the fortresses raised to defend the Swedish 

 coasts from Denmark. Beyond the jDromontories of Hallandsâs and Kullen stands 

 Ifeisiuf/borg, at the northern entrance to the Sound over against Elsinore. In the 

 neighbourhood are the Hoganas coal mines, which have already yielded over 

 9,000,000 tons, and south of the town other and far richer deposits have recently 

 been discovered at a point on the coast easily accessible to shipping. In the manor 

 of Knutstorp, near Helsingborg, Tycho-Brahe was born in 1546, and the island of 



