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Excerpt from School Institutions and School Hygiene in the Grand Duchy of Finland Finland in Finnish Suomi is situated between 59 and 70 N and between 21 and 32 E of Greenwich. The two great gulfs of the Baltic surround it, the Gulf of Bothnia in the W and the Gulf of Finland in the S; in NW Finland borders on to Sweden and Norway and in the E 011 to Russia. Finland has an area of square kilometres. The coast has a length of kilometres and is, especially in the SW and S, cut into a number of bays and points, outside which an archipelago of innumerable islands and rocks spreads itself out. This archipelago has its greatest extension in the sw, in the direction of Sweden, and is terminated by the large group of islands called Aland. The mainland is dotted over with a great number of lakes in fact these comprise 12 of the whole area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.