THE FOREST LANDS AND FORESTRY 
OF FINLAND; 
WITH NOTICES OF THE FINNISH PEOPLE. 
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PART I, 
LAKES AND RIVERS OF FINLAND. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Wirn Finland and its people I have been more or less 
extensively acquainted for fifty years. In the autumn of 
1833 I went to Russia to undertake the pastoral charge of 
the British and American Congregational Church in St. 
Petersburg. ‘I'he first evening I spent in that city was 
spent with a number of friends, Englishmen, Scotchmen, 
and Americans, who, by engaging in the sale and distribu- 
tion of the sacred Scriptures and religious tracts in different 
languages, the support of a school tor the children of poor 
foreigners, of a Dorcas Society for supplying the poor with 
clothing, of a Magdalene refuge for poor outcasts, and by 
other like philanthropic work, were seeking to do good ; 
and in all these benevolent efforts they were encouraged by 
liberal contributions from the Emperor Nicholas, from the 
Empress, and from other members of the Imperial Family. 
The effects of their Christian work were felt from the Gulf 
of Bothnia to the Sea of Ochotsk, from Finland to 
Kamschatka. Iwas received with a brother-like welcome, 
and made welcome to co-operate with them to my heart's 
content, 
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