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SCANDINAVIA. 



emigration, which left some districts nearly uninhabited. In 1869 over 57,000 

 left the peninsula for America, including even some Lapps; but since 1870 the 

 movement has abated, the annual emigration now amounting to about 12,000, 

 mostly from the Norwegian coast lands. They settle chiefly in the northern 

 States of the Union — Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. The historical 

 Swedish colony of Nija Svenge, or "New Sweden," founded in 1638 on the 



Fig. 73. — Density of the Scandinavian Population in 1872. 



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lubiibitants to a Squai-e Mile. 



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Under 3. 3 to 26. 26 to 52. 52 to 104. 104 to 155. 155 to 207. Over 207. 



banks of the Delaware, having been ceded in 1655 to Holland, fell with the 

 other Netherlandish possessions to England, and is now remembered by a solitary 

 name. 



Immigration, consisting mostly of returned settlers or their descendants, 

 besides a few hundred Danes and Germans, is far from compensating for the 

 outflow. A few English have settled in the Norwegian coast towns and in 



