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TOWN AND COUNTRY.
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position of Stockholm is, in certain respects, not so advantageous as
formerly, a circumstance which explains the fact that Stockholm has not
become the heart of Sweden to the same degree as Copenhagen, for example,
is of Denmark, or Paris of France. During the last few decades, however,
Stockholm has undergone great development as a manufacturing town,
and at present reckons over 375 000 inhabitants, whereas it had not a
fourth of that number at the middle of last century. From the tourists
point of view, Stockholm is universally acknowledged to be one of the
most beautiful cities in the world, and in proportion as communications
with foreign countries are improved its attractiveness will make itself more
and more felt.
Stockholm. Vasa Bridge.
The second city of Sweden in point of population, and the first in point of
export-trade, is Göteborg (Gothenburg), situated at the mouth of the
Götaälv, where that river flows into the North Sea. Possessing (with
suburbs) something over 200 000 inhabitants, compared with only Vie
of that number at the beginning of the 19th century, Gothenburg is a
rich and well-built city, celebrated for a highly developed civic spirit.
Gothenburg has, perhaps, the finest position for a commercial city in the
whole of Scandinavia; of låte, however, its principal development — like
that of Stockholm — has been as a manufacturing town.
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