The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

132 SCANDINAVIA.Canal, whose sluices, rising in successive stages on the slope of the mountain,resemble the steps of some giant stairs. Wenersborg, -which communicates bythis canal and the river with Goteborg, is also connected by a railway with theport of Uddevalla, and on the south-east with the general Swedish railwaysystem by a line passing through the gorge between the heights of Halleborg andIlunneborg.South of Goteborg the chief ports on the Kattegat are Kongsbacka, TVarberff,and Falkenberg. Hahnstad, capital of Halland, at the mouth of the Xissa, stillFig. 66. Landskkona.Scale 1 : 36,000.farther south, was formerly one of the fortresses raised to defend the Swedishcoasts from Denmark. Beyond the promontories of Hallandsas and Kullen standsMeMngborg, at the northern entrance to the Sound over against Elsinore. In theneighbourhood are the Hoganas coal mines, which have already yielded over9,000,000 tons, and south of the town other and far richer deposits have recentlybeen discovered at a point on the coast easily accessible to shipping. In the manorof Knutstorp, near Helsingborg, Tycho-Brahe was born in 1546, and the island of