8 Nature threatened 
Waterfall Committee, for the registra- 
tion and charting of all the public falls 
and rapids in Sweden was instituted 
by Parliament. In the report of the 
Committee, it was proposed not to 
utilise every one of the falls for indus- 
trial purposes ; but to reserve, from 
the beginning, a few falls or rapids as 
natural monuments \ 
Rocks 
Then, again, remarkable rocky 
districts are frequently disfigured by 
stone-quarries. On the western and 
eastern coast of southern Sweden, 
granite is quarried for paving-stones, 
which are exported chiefly to the 
continent. On some parts of the 
coast, the quarries are rather extensive, 
^ Betankande afgifvet den 17. mars 1903 af 
den for utredning betrafifande vissa staten till- 
horiga vattenfall af kungl. Majestat den 9. juni 
1899 tillsatta kommitt^n. Stockholm, 1903, p. 117. 
