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preservation of natural scenery.
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Stockholm before the Swedish Society for Anthropology and geography, by
Professor H. Conwentz, of Danzig, the promoter of the modern movement for
protecting natural scenery; and partly also in the Riksdag by a motion of K.
Starbäck, who introduced a suggestion for precautionary measures for preserving the
natural land-marks of the country. After thorough preliminaries, in which
E. Lönnberg took a leading role, the Government, in 1909, brought in bills for
legislation concerning typical pieces of scenery and national parks and for setting
aside on Crown-lands a number of such spaces; these bills were approved by the
Riksdag.
Drift Sand-dune (Gotska Sandön).
The reserved national parks give a lairly good idea of the types of scenery
in Sweden. The enormous territory round the Stora Sjöfallet and Sarjek
mountains contains one of the greatest waterfalls in the world and an
extensive perspective of unimaginable beauty and glimpses of wonderment and
charm. The mountain nature is subarctic with great glaciers; moreover various
styles of forest are found, not only those that maintain an unequal contest with
the winds of the mountains, but also such as enjoy a happy and abundant
rejuvenation. Bears find a completely safe refuge here. Abisko offers a picture
of tyjjical mountain valley with exuberant vegetation, where some most
uncommon specimens of arctic plants grow. A primaeval forest district of
Norrland with its pine woods is to be found in the Hamra Crown-lands, while
foliage is represented in the leafy meadows of Mount Peljekaise. We meet
in the island of Ängs ön a bit of the lovely scenery of Central Sweden’s
archipelago, and in the chalk formation of the hills Kilsbergen a slope of
vegetation where Central Swedish leafy trees of diverse kinds grow as
upper-foliage with undergrowth of the most beautiful bushspecies of the country, and
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