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(1889) [MARC] Author: Karl Baedeker
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thence by the branch-railway to Sundsvall (see below), but most
travellers will prefer to take a steamboat direct from Stockholm
or from Gefle to Sundsvall. The steamboat’s course is protected
by a Skärgård, or belt of islands, nearly the whole way from
Stockholm to Sundsvall, and the voyage is a pleasant one in fine
weather. The first important station to the N. of Gefle is (13 M.) —

Söderhamn (Söderhamn Hotel; Hotel Frank), a seaport with
9400 inhab., prettily situated at the N. end of the Söderfjärd, a
bay of the Gulf of Bothnia. The town, on which municipal
privileges were conferred by Gustavus Adolphus in 1620, has been often
burned down, and since the last fires (1860 and 1865) has been
substantially rebuilt. The staple commodities are iron from the
neighbouring foundries and timber from the province of Helsingland.

Local steamboats ply daily to several of the neighbouring
villages, including Ljusne at the mouth of the Ljume-Elf, to the S.
Railway to Kilafors, see p. 370.

Hudiksvall (Stads-Hotellet; Hotel Helsingland), the next
steamboat-station, 12 M. to the N. of Söderhamn, a town with 4400
inhab. , is connected by a short branch-line with Forssa, whence
a steamboat plies to several stations on the Norra and Södra Dellen
lakes. In the environs are several large iron-works and saw-mills.
From Hudiksvall a railway runs to (17 Kil.) Näsviken and (62 Kil.)
Ljusdal (p. 370). — The next important steamboat-station, 18 M.
to the X. of Hudiksvall, is —

Sundsvall (Stadshuset; Hotel Nord; Jernväigs-Hotellet), next to
Gefle the most considerable seaport and manufacturing town in the
Swedish Norrland, with 10,700inhab., situated at the mouth of the
Selångeru. It was founded by Gustavus Adolphns in 1624,
plundered and burned down by the Russians in 1719, and afterwards
rebuilt in a more substantial style. Several extensive saw-mills
and iron-works in the neighbourhood, chiefly on the coast, with
harbours of their own. — Several local steamers ply to the
villages and manufactories,in the vicinity.

From Sundsvall to Ange, 95 Kil. (59 Engl. 31.), railway in 4 hrs.
(fares 5 kr., 3 kr. 35 ö ). The first station is Vatijom. whence a small
branch-line diverges to the iron-works and saw-inills of Hatfort, on the
Ljunga-Elf. Then Nedansjö, Kär/sta, and Viskan. 57 Kil. Tovpshammnr,
and railway thence to Ånrje, on the Östersund and Throndhjem line, see
pp. 371, 37Ö.

The first important place to the X. of Sundsvall is (10 M.) —

Hernösand (Hotel Norrland, dear; Hotel Bäfvern;
(lästgif-varegård), capital of the län of Vesternorrland, a seaport town
with 5700 inhab., founded in 1584, and now the seat of a bishop
and the ‘landshöfding’or governor of the province. Handsome new
church, consecrated in 1846. Engine-works, timber-yards,
sawmills, and several manufactories. The town itself, which lies on an
island near the mainland, is uninteresting, but is important to
travellers as the starting-point for a visit to the *Angerman-Elf,

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