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peculiarity of the church is that the choir is at the W. end. (The
Klockare lives near.) — A fine example of a Swedish castle of the
16th cent, is the* Vetter sborg, close to the lake and the harbour (the
old moat), which was erectedby Gustavus Vasa. Theinterior, which
has been used successively as a school, a manufactory, and a
storehouse, is uninteresting. A window is shown as that from which
the insane Duke Magnus of Östergötland, one of the sons of
Gnsta-vus Vasa , threw himself into the lake, attracted, as he declared,
by the songs of sirens. Finely vaulted chapel. Extensive view
from the tower. — After another hour the steamer touches at —
Mo tål a (Hotel Nilsson; Hotel Bergström; Prins Karl, to the S.
of the Storbro, with a pleasant garden on the river; baths by the
harbour), a town with ‘2200 inhab., prettily situated in park-like
scenery on the Vårvik, at the efflux of the Motala from Lake Yettern.
It lies about midway between Gothenburg and Stockholm, at the
W. end of the eastern half of the Göta Canal (Östgöta Linie).
The road to Skenige commands a fine view. A shady *Promenade
leads on the bank of the canal to Motala Verkstad (p. 303). At
Motala there is a ‘bestämmande sluss’ or reservoir lock, used for
the purpose of regulating the quantity of water in the canal. —
Travellers arriving at Motala from Jönköping or Nässjö, and
intending to proceed to Stockholm by the Göta Canal, are
recommended to proceed by steam-launch to Motala Verkstad and pass
the night there in Verkstadens Hotel. In this way they will have
time to inspect the works, and visit Platen’s grave and the locks
of P.orenshult (comp. p. 304). The scenery resembles a park.
Railway to Hallsberg and Mjölby, see p. 3Ö7.
About 10 Kil. to the N. of JlotaJa is the favourite watering-place
Mederi, with chalybeate springs.
b. Göta Canal. Östgöta Linie.
The project of uniting the E. and W. coasts of Sweden by a
water-highway, the greater part of which already existed in the
navigable lakes Mälaren, Hjelmaren, Vettern, and Venern, was
first ventilated by Bishop Brask of Linköping in 1516, and was
afterwards taken up by Gustarus Vasa and Charles IX., the latter
of whom constructed the Knrlsgrahen at Venersborg. It was not,
however, till the 18th cent, that the work was seriously taken in
hand and an attempt made by the engineers Svedenborg and
Polhem (1716), and afterwards Viman (1753), to overcome the
main obstacles to the success of the scheme by the construction of
a system of locks and sluices at Karlsgraben and Trollhättan (comp,
p. 292). In 1755 the principal part of the latter, the so-called
Flottbergsdamm, was destroyed by floating timber, and the
enterprise was abandoned till 1793, when a company was formed for
the completion of the work. The old locks of Trollhättan were
opened in 1800 (p.292), and Lake Yenern was thus brought into
communication with the N. Sea for the first time.
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