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Excerpt from Swedish Life in Town and Country Glance at the map Will Show that the Scandinavian Peninsula, that immense stretch of land running from the Arctic Ocean to the North Sea, and from the Baltic to the Atlantic, covering an area of nearly three hundred thousand square miles, is, next to Russia, the largest terri torial division of Europe. Surrounded by sea on all sides but one, Which gives it an unparalleled seaboard of over two thousand miles, it hangs on to the Continent by its frontier line With Russia in Lapland. Down the middle of this seabound con tinent, dividing it into two nearly equal parts, runs a chain of mountains not inappropriately called Kelen, or the Keel. The name suggests the image Which the aspect of the land calls to mind that of a huge ship floating, keel upwards. 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.