2 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
In the prosecution of other works which devolved on me, 
I was enabled, with the co-operation and help of the late 
Dr Melartin, then Archbishop of Abo, and the encourage- 
ment of the Minister of State for the Grand Dutchy, to 
make arrangements for the publication of a new and 
corrected edition of the New Testament in Finnish, and 
for the supply of a copy of this at a low price, or if 
necessary gratuitously, to every family in Finland. This 
required returns of the population in every parish in the 
country. 
During the last five-and-twenty years I have repeatedly 
spent the summer in St. Petersburg, preaching in the 
British and. American Chapel, while one and another of 
my successors in the pastorate sought a few’ months’ 
relaxation at home. And on aimost all these occasions I 
visited some part or another of Finland. 
With the knowledge thus acquired J consider I can best 
convey to another some idea of Finland. poetically desig- 
nated by her people, “The Land of a Thousand Lakes,” 
and “The Last-born. Daughter of the Sea,” by giving a 
sketch of a trip which I took to Kuopia, on the Saima See, 
in the summer of 1882. 
By the middle of June most of the members of the 
church to which I was temporarily ministering had gone 
to the country for the summer, leaving little to be done 
by me excepting on the Sabbaths; and to this trip I de- 
veted one of the iatervening weeks, 
