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lx the Shaft House the Ore Is Carried by Means of Modern Lifting-Machinery Directly 
to the Railway Cars 
Sweden’s richest natural resources—her forests and her ore-bearing* 
hills. 
The tourist will find Bergslagen a perfect illustration of all that 
Central Sweden has to offer of beautiful landscape and fascinating 
relics of earlier civilization. To be sure, he misses here the stretching 
fertile plains of Southern Sweden and the lofty mountains of Xorrland, 
but to him who would know Sweden in her intimate mood, the country 
of Bergslagen presents the richest possibilities. A veritable net of rail¬ 
ways facilitates travel from place to place, and a multitude of lakes 
and rivulets spreads out for those who are fond of boating. The 
Stromsholm Canal leads from Stockholm through the old mining 
communities straight into the heart of Dalarne. The traveler passes 
over numerous lakes joined by canals, like a string of pearls, and sees 
on the shores many an old mining village, such as Ramnas, Seglings- 
berg, Angelsberg and Fagersta, all honorable old representatives of 
Swedish mining industry. As he sails into higher country the hills 
become azure near the horizon, and at idyllic Smedjebacken, the end of 
the voyage, he is in Dalarne, and within a two hours’ train journey of 
Lake Siljan, famed in song. Should the tourist prefer to travel by 
foot or bicycle, he will find good roads, with villages and farm¬ 
steads not widely separated, and plenty of good accommodations. 
