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Show Great Natural Beauty in Baltic Republics Along the shores of the Baltic sea are four vigorous and interesting republics re-publics formed from territory tluit was part of old Russia little more than a decade ago. Young as they are in their present national independence, inde-pendence, each of them Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia has cultural, historical, architectural and artistic traditions of great interest to every visitor, and each is rich in Ira-posing Ira-posing scenes of natural beauty in coastline and forest and lakeside. Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, Is an unusually beautiful city, surrounded sur-rounded on three sides by the sea. Ulga, In Latvia, is the home of one of the finest examples of medieval architecture in northern Europe in Its Thirteenth-century cathedral, and Tallinn (formerly Reval), In Esthonia, Es-thonia, contains many ancient and Interesting relics of its great days as a Hanseatic port. |