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lake so concealed but geese and ducks have chosen it for 
their home, and found there a free dwelling place.’ 
Everywhere throughout the districts which I traversed 
I found the mounds, and hillocks, and hills, covered with 
wood—most commonly young wood. I would scarcely be 
warranted to call it coppice, but it was yielding firewood 
and not timber. 
Excepting in the extreme north, and there only to a 
limited extent, are there any districts which can be 
characterised as treeless. The region through which I 
passed, and that along a great deal of the west coast, are 
deficient in timber trees, but trees producing firewood are 
not awanting. More inland on the west coast between the 
littoral land and that of the lake district which I visited 
at this time, there is a deficiency of timber trees, and 
the little firewood there is, is comparatively worthless. But 
in the higher lying land, from 200 to 400 feet above the 
level of the sea, both firewood and timber trees are 
abundant. 
Of the land thus wooded there are :— 
Of the last mentioned, - 15,785,000 tunnland. 
Of the first mentioned, : 16,759,000 a5 
Of the second, - - 9,456,000 e 
In all, . . 42,000,000 ey 
Following the course of rivers all along the coast from 
St. Petersburg to Torneo agriculture prevails, and studded 
over the southern half of the land in innumerable 
localities it is practised. 
It is stated that in Finland there are :— 
Of woodlands, - - - 42,000,000 tunnland, 
Of land incapable of tillage, - 19,259, 132 5 
Of water, . . . 6,115,392 x6 
Of meadow land, . - 5,817,270 5 
—= 
Carried forward, 73,191,794 n 
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