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TOD RING FACILITIES.
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female patients, thus on an average by 298 patients each season. There
is a complete institute at Gothenburg, and selected apparatuses are found
in Örebro and Norrköping. Complete or partially equipped institutes
exist at a considerable number of places abroad. — All the Zander
apparatuses are constructed in Stockholm, at the Göransson Mechanical
Works, Ltd (Aktiebolaget Göranssons Mekaniska verkstad), Stockholm.
5. TOURING AND SPORT.
Owing to the perfected means of communication in our days, touring
has become a common pastime with the well-to-do classes of most
countries, and through this a means of education of high value is created.
To the physical development of the race, sports are of no less importance.
As to Sweden, energetical efforts have been made in latter days in order
to call forth among our own people a more active interest in touring
and to secure to the tourist in Sweden all the modern comforts, and also
to introduce healthy sports as a factor of popular education.
Touring and Touring Facilities.
From a tourist’s point of view, Sweden may be said to consist
of three territories, widely distinct from each other both in natural
character and in the life and occupations of their inhabitants; these
are: Southern Sweden, the Forest Region, and the Alpine Districts.
Southern Sweden presents to the gaze of the tourist lowland scenery
of a charming character; its provinces have been cultivated from ancient times
and their population is, comparatively speaking, numerous; monuments of the
country’s history are here to be found in great plenty, including tombs from the
Stone Age, rock-carvings from the Bronze Age, and magnificent castles and country
seats from Sweden’s Period of political Greatness (1611/1718).
The Forest Region, or, roughly speaking, the eastern portion of northern
Sweden, derives its name from the vast stretches of forest with which it abounds, broken
only by huge rivers and other waters. For tourists, the principal attractions in
this region consists in the great lakes, the river valleys with their multitude of
majestic waterfalls, and in the busy timber trade and the salmon fishery.
The Alpine Districts, finally, or the western portions of northern Sweden,
embrace a wild tract of country, where the nomadic Lapps roam about with their
herds of reindeer; here the tourist has excellent opportunities of experiencing the
delights of camp-life in surroundings of Alpine grandeur, for though the mountain
peaks do not, it is true, exceed, in general, some 2,000 meters in height, yet,
owing to the northerly latitudes in which they lie, they afford extensive glacial
regions and, thanks to the frequency of mountain lakelets and the remarkable
character of the birch-vegetation, the country here possesses a distinct beauty
and attraction of its own.
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