The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TRADE AND SHIPPING. 153industries comprised 2,868 factories in 1877, with a total yield of £9,376,000worth of goods, and employing 60,589 hands, of whom three-fourths were adults.The chief manufacturing centres are Goteborg, Stockholm, and Norrkoping,producing between them one-half of the wares manufactured in Sweden. TheNorwegian industries employ 35,000 hands, or, in proportion to the population,about the same number as the Swedish. In some respects Norway is even morefavoured ; for, if less rich in iron, it imports English coal more easily, and maintainsdirect commercial relations throughout tbe year with Great Britain andthe mainland. Thanks also to its falls and rapids, mostly in the immediateneighbourhood of the coast, it disposes of even a larger water motive power thanSweden.Trade and Shipping.But if not superior as a manufacturing country, Norway surpasses its neighbourat least in its trade. In this respect it has turned to marvellous accountFig. 76. Stavanger-fiord.Scale 1 : 140,000.5-