SWEDISH TOWNS. 



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tance those of Falun; and on the nortli-wcst is the famous Finspâng cannon foundry, 

 situated in a romantic district, remarkable for its steep cliffs rising abruptly above 

 the Norrkoping plain. 



Moiala, at the outlet of the river from Lake Wetter, is also a manufacturing 

 town, and in the same district are the two famous towns of Linkôping and 

 Jônk'ôping, the former, near which Berzelius was born, now communicating with 

 the sea through a canal, the latter an industrial place lying between Lakes Wetter 

 and Munksjon. Farther east, near the Husgvarna falls, is one of the principal 

 métallurgie centres of Sweden, where are manuftictured lire-arms, sewing 

 machines, and instruments of all kinds ; south-east several blast furnaces fed by 



Fig. 68.^NoERKoriNG and Finspang. 

 Scale 1 : 300.000. 



5 Miles. 



the famous cres of the Taherrj ; lastly, on the shores of Lake IMunksjon, the largest 

 match factory in the world," whose produce has penetrated to the South Sea 

 Islands and the interior of China. In 187G there were here employed 1,800 

 hands, who produced 200,000,000 of boxes, or about twenty billions of matches, 

 valued at about £160,000, and using up entire forests. In an island of Lake 

 Wetter is the old royal residence of Wising, and to the north-west, between 

 the two great lakes, lies Skara, which boasts of being the oldest town in 

 Sweden. 



* TSTow exceeded by that of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S., which paid (1879) a duty of £G0,000, and 

 consumed 2,(i00,000 cubic feet of timber the same vear. 



