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iv. education and mental cultulle.
Lappland. This, the northernmost province of Sweden, is traversed by the
most northerly railway in the world, the last section of the State Railway that
runs through Upper Sweden. A journey of 36 hours in comfortable
railway-carriages brings the tourist from Stockholm to the land of eternal snow and
of the midnight sun. A rapid journey by train, however, gives the tourist but
little opportunity to form a real idea of the scenery of Lappland; to be able to
do this, the traveller should stay some time in the province, and make excursions
here and there in the far-stretching wastes.
Against the Rapids.
From a painting by Johan Tirén.
Areas here are of vast extent; greater than what is usually supposed. The
government district of Norrbotten is larger than Portugal, and there are
parishes that are larger than the kingdom of Saxony, but in spite of this fact,
the tourist will have no great difficulty in visiting some of the chief sights of
Lappland. At Gällivare and Kiruna there are iron-fields of immense extent,
the ore of which is now being mined and exported on a very great scale.
From Gällivare there is a local line to Porjus, where the waterfall of the
same name is employed for an electric power-station, which is to provide
the motive-power for the railway-line between Luleå and the Riksgränsen (the
frontier station towards Norway). From Porjus it is only 12 km to the
tremendous waterfall of Harsprånget, which is 74 m high, and where the flow of water
is 700 — 800 cubic meters per second; from this spot an excursion of a couple
of days — the greater part of the distance being covered in a rowing-boat —
brings the tourist to the waterfall called Stora Sjöfallet, which disputes with
Harsprånget the premier place among the many waterfalls of Sweden. The
country round the waterfall has been turned into a national park.
From Abisko tourist-station, lying on the beautiful lake Torne träsk, the "Lågo
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