Wiborg

We were a very merry party of forty or fifty, as we steamed away from the _Wiborg_ pier to where the two yachts were to meet.

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In summer yachting is one of the great institutions of Finland, and we were lucky enough to be in _Wiborg_ at the time of the great race between _Wiborg_ and _Helsingfors_ for the Yacht Cup.

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_Wiborg_, which from its position is on the high road to Russia, ought to be handsome also and have good stone buildings, but it is not handsome, and has few good buildings.

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They were made of _suola kala_ (salted fish), eaten raw by the peasants; we now saw them in _Wiborg_ for the first time, though, unhappily, not for the last, since these fish tartlets haunted us at every stage of our journey up country.

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The _Menelik_ belongs to _Wiborg_; the _Thelma_ to _Helsingfors_.

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Standing on the top of the tower of the old castle -- alas! so hideously restored -- at _Wiborg_, one can see for miles and miles nothing but lakes and trees, and as we lingered and wondered at the flatness of the land our attention was arrested by patches of smoke.

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The Russian torpedo boat Wiborg, for instance, is designed to carry coal for 1,200 miles at 10 knot speed; but at 20 knots this fuel would last only twenty-seven hours, carrying the vessel 540 miles.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

The enlarged Wiborg would thus not differ much from the enlarged City of Paris.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

In _Helsingfors_ and _Wiborg_, where the living is more expensive than in other Finnish towns, the principals and the lady teachers (but not the "kollegas") are in receipt of an addition to their salaries.

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As we neared _Wiborg_ we were all excitement as to what a visit to a country-house would be like, especially as we were going among strangers, having been most hospitably invited to stay with the relations of our Finnish friend on their summer island-home of

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