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buckets, &c., has been for many ages a work of domestic 
industry, the products of which are exported to Denmark 
and Northern Germany. Little is done in ornamental 
woodwork as yet; and the same may be said of children’s 
toys. German and Russian toys are what are generally 
met with in shops. , 
There were in this year 11 coachbuilders’ establish- 
ments, but much is done also in workshops, and in the 
country many people make their own waggons and sledges, 
and in some localities, as, for example, at Uskela, they 
make them for sale. The two-wheeled and four-wheeled 
vehicles made at Abo have great repute. 
The railways of the country must consume a great deal 
of timber in the construction of sleepers, stations, waggons, 
and in the repairs from time to time required. In 1878 
the railways in Finland measured in extent 820 versts, or 
547 miles. 
In connection with this reference may be made to 
the consumption of wood in fences, reported by Dr Heugh 
as amounting to 754 millions of cubic feet in a year. 
SECTION D.—INDUSTRIES IN WHICH WOOD IS 
MApbE USE oF. 
The manufacture of matches is a new industry to find a 
place amongst trades carried on on an extensive scale. 
Formerly, in Scotland at least, it used to be a handicraft 
practised by beggar women and old men, successors of the 
‘gaberlunzie’ beggars of a previous age, and it was followed 
very much as a cover for begging. ‘l'here are now match 
manufactories in many of the towns of Finland. The 
oldest of these is the match manufactory of Sofiegarten, 
néar Bjérneborg, which, some twenty years ago [1863], 
was one of the largest establishments of the kind in 
Europe, and, according to Finnish report, the most 
renowned both for the quality and the quantity of its 
