Water 
7 
Water 
The utilisation of water power 
generally yields a fair profit. Falls 
and rapids in particular are utilised by 
industrial undertakings, as on the 
Tivoli Falls in Italy, on the Rhine 
Fall in Germany, and on the Niagara 
Falls in America. Perhaps no other 
place of natural beauty in the whole 
world is so utterly disfigured as the 
Trollhatta Falls in Sweden. These 
Falls are now surrounded by numerous 
manufactories such as electrical works, 
engine works, an iron foundry, an oil 
factory, cellulose works, and carbide 
works. Moreover the opposing rock 
is disfigured by glaring advertisements. 
Hence this beautiful monument of 
nature has become her caricature. 
The Swedish government endeavoured 
to buy out these establishments, but 
to no purpose. In the year 1899, a 
