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CHAPTER IX
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
The oldest means of communication in Finland and
other parts of Western Europe are the waterways;
in Finland, not only the sea with its broken-up coasts,
giving communication with the great world, but also
the lakes and rivers in the interior. The character of
this country, “the last-born daughter of the sea,” with
its great lake-systems in the interior, and the land
only sloping down near the coast, has made it possible
for these great inland seas to be utilised for navigation.
It was along the waterways that communication first
took place; and these are still to-day the great means
of communication everywhere, especially in the north
during the summer, when there is no winter snow for
the sleighs. In the far north they are still the only
routes existing, and it is over them that a considerable
part of the people travel to the large fisheries on the
coasts of the Polar Sea and the White Sea. In the
south, too, boats and small steamers ply everywhere,
among the islands of the coast as well as on the large
inland lakes, which have the same character as the
coasts, and afford excellent means of communication
during the summer.
The great hindrance to navigation was formerly the
rapids, to which we have referred, and which are very
numerous in many of the rivers. The people, however,
soon learned to overcome this difficulty; places were
found where the boats could be drawn overland, and
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