Peeps at many lands: Sweden

many lakes, including Vener, Vetter, Hjelm?r, and Malar. These are so linked together by canals, that they form a w

rarely lose sight of vast expanses of water and great stretches of forest. In the distance you can see a whitewashed parish church glistening in the sun, here and there farmhouses and woodmen's huts nestling among the trees, and sometimes the castle where the nobleman o

ring-twisted) biscuits, you leave the steamer while it passes through the locks, eleven in number, and walk along the shaded paths until you come to the falls. They consist of a series of six

in Scandinavia. It is very picturesque and beautiful, with many houses and villages on its banks. More than thirty rivers run into it. You very often meet steamers

Telford, staked out the course, and the work was completed in 1820 at a cost of about ￡1,000,000. Very many soldiers were engaged on it. The whole distance is about 125 miles, which is a long d

distance with the tower surmounted by the national flag. Lake Vetter is clear and blue and is beautiful to look upon, but every mariner dreads it, as, without any warning, violent storms arise. Sailing across in a south-easterly direction, you come to a famous old town-Vadstena. How times have changed

could possess any wealth, no intercourse was allowed with old friends except on rare occasions. Every nun was driven out at the Reformation, and not much is left to tell of their having lived there, but in the town many women make beautiful lace of the old patterns the nuns use

were buried, and here, too, can be seen several coffins in one of the chapels. These contain the remains of members of the Dou

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p, rocky, and wooded shores on the one side, and fertile plains o

e of that name. Of this you can make no mistake, for on board come women and children with baskets full of ring-twisted biscuits, which are known all over the world. At last we enter Lake Malar, surely one of the most be