Identifier: 02145706.5485.emory.edu
Title: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen ; handbook for travellers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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io, then on the Tornea-Elf. The rushing Muoniolcoski,a cataract 2 Kil. long, is audible at Muoniovara, !/4 hr. distant. Thedescent is exciting (2 kr. to the fors-styrman). The foaming rivercareers wildly through a narrow gully and over sunken rocks. The boat from Muoniovara to Ruskola (see p. 394), manned bythree boatmen, holds two passengers only, and costs about 80 kr.We descend a series of other cataracts and rapids. The voyage (about280 Kil.) takes 21/2-3 days. Good quarters, at Kihlangi, Kengis Bruit,(iron-works), Pello, and Matarengi, with Ofver Tornea and Mt. Ava-taxa (p. 394), on the Finnish side. Between the station of Lap-pea (406 ft.) and that of Kengis Brule,1 hr. below it, the Muonio falls into the Tornea-Elf. Near Pello(266 ft.) is the Kittis, a hill associated with the memory of Mauper-tuis, who directed the geometrical measurements here in 1736. —From Matarengi, where it is usual to land, to Haparanda, see p. 394.From Lappea we may travel by land instead of by water.
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245 37. Iceland. Apart from the British vessels tradiDg with Iceland and the summercruisers of the German Hamburg and America line and the Nord-DeutscheLloyd (which usually allow too brief a stay in the island), the Danishsteamers are the most satisfactory for those who desire to see theGeysirs and Hecla (10 days) or to take the excursion from Akureyri tothe Myvatn (8 days). These steamers, starting from Copenhagen, andcalling at Leith, belong to the Forenede Dampskibsselskab (Kvsesthusgade 9;26 voyages annually; return-fare within six months 115 kr.; food 4 kr.per day extra) and the Selskdb Thore (Havnegade 43; 33 voyages; 115 kr.;food 2lfe kr. daily). Those who wish to visit the N. coast of the islandmay take their passage in one of 0. Walhnes Arvingeri vessels (Niels-JulsGade 15; 22 vojages; 100-120 kr.; food 3 kr. per day). Time-tablesshould be asked for by postcard beforehand. The only suitable season for this tour is July and August, and eventhen winter clothing and strong water

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