Peeps at many lands: Sweden

spend the summer? Three whole months of liberty and sunshine-this is what every boy and girl looks forward to in Sweden, as t

y steamer St. Erik, and although we have come early, we find it already crowded with families hurrying off to the seaside, so great is the rush from town as soon as

Marstrand's fortress, dominating the whole island, and overlooking the stormy Kattegat, whose waves beat on its shores from all sides. Then we

e steamer when in that narrow canal, as the boat almost touches the clif

of Marstrand. What a glamour rests over t

eature is the white church with its square tower. The town was founded in 1220 by the Norwegian King Hakon Hakonson. During the sixteenth century it rose into importance as one of the best herring fisheries of the North, but in these days it depends almost entirely on the sup

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the delights of a summer at Marstrand, which are chiefly summed up in the three words, bathing, sailing, and fishing. We soon get settled

of bed, and as we mean business and not only pleasure, we don an old serge skirt, as we know we shall get many a soaking of salt water from the spray of the waves as well as f

line often having about six hooks. These we bait with mussels. When luck is good, one has not long to wait; we were soo

ready to return home, feeling almost giddy with the strong air and the rocking of the

oored several large boats with their white sails hoisted, bearing

ds are much dreaded by sailors, and on Hamnsk?r, the largest of them, there is a lighthouse, and below it is the light-keeper's house, a low stone building, the only human dwelling-place on

a whole day; the boats are large and comforta

e are two parks, one named Paradicet (the Paradise). This used to be the favourite meeting-place for the visitors,

losure there are doors that open out into the open sea for the more able swimmers. Each bather has a small room to undress in, and a

who do not know how to swim, and there are not many boys and

rence in the temperature between night and day; consequently, the temperatur

a perfectly preserved condition. In some places the walls are blasted out of the cliffs; in others

a very narrow passage called the Needle's Eye. The extreme point of the island is called T? Udden-the Cape of the Toe. This is a favourite