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TOD RING FACILITIES.
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among the mountains can be made, while fishing is to be had in the vicinity of
almost all the places named.
9) The Rivers Indahelfven and • Angermanelfven. The lower reaches of
these rivers present excellent opportunities for the tourist who makes a trip upon
them, to obtain an idea of the natural grandeur of the Norrland rivers and also
to observe how the timber industry is carried on and how the salmon fishery is
conducted. Steamers start from Sundsvall on the Baltic coast and make their
way up the Indalselfven to Bispgården, a station on the trunk railway line
through Norrland. Other steamers, again, ply up the Angermanelfven from
Hernösand on the Baltic coast to the railway station of Sollefteå. As Sundsvall
and Hernösand are in frequent connection with one another by water, and
likewise Bispgården and Sollefteå by land, it is easy to combine the two trips on
these rivers. They can, moreover, very easily be accomplished in conjunction
with a journey to Dalarne or to Jemtland, or with the following tour.
At Lake Torpsjön, in Medelpad.
10) Northernmost Sweden and Lappland. The railway line from Stockholm
to the far North, and that starting from Luleå, crossing the polar circle and
reaching to Gellivare and beyond, have opened up the gateway to the realms of
the Midnight Sun, hitherto the home of nomadic tribes of Lapplanders. The
line from Luleå has recently (in 1903) been extended all the way to Ofoten
on the Atlantic coast. This, the most northerly railway in the world, will
certainly be a tourist route of great interest, traversing the very heart of
Lappland and skirting the great lake of Tome trösk. At present, however, the
greater part of Lappland, is only accessible to the pedestrian who carries with
him his requisites in the way of food and shelter. With Gellivare as the
starting-point, an interesting and comparatively easy excursion, partly on foot partly in
rowing boat, can be made to two of the grandest waterfalls in the whole of
Europe: the Stora Sjöfallet and Harsprånget. Another interesting Lappland
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