Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809The Journal includes images of traditional Icelandic dress and natural landmarks. Paying particular attention to political structures and religious institutions, Hooker includes intricate tables of how tax dollars were spent, how hospitals and schools were run and more. As an academic botanist by trade, his journal entries describe the flora of the country; plants collected by Hooker on this trip were lost in a fire on the return voyage. |
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... feet long , by four or five feet deep , and was thence distributed among the most necessitous of the natives during seasons . of famine or scarcity . Milk is converted into Syra , or sour whey , which is preserved in casks till it has ...
... feet long , by four or five feet deep , and was thence distributed among the most necessitous of the natives during seasons . of famine or scarcity . Milk is converted into Syra , or sour whey , which is preserved in casks till it has ...
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... feet of elevation , are by no means the loftiest in the island . Geitland and Blaa - fel Jökul tower over the rest in the southern quarter , where Hecla , also , is situated , more remarkable for the fre- quency of its eruptions than ...
... feet of elevation , are by no means the loftiest in the island . Geitland and Blaa - fel Jökul tower over the rest in the southern quarter , where Hecla , also , is situated , more remarkable for the fre- quency of its eruptions than ...
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... feet high . Some had pretty long beards , while others had as much only , as would remain after the operation of shav- ing had been performed with a blunt knife , or a pair of scissars as to their hair , it was altogether in a state of ...
... feet high . Some had pretty long beards , while others had as much only , as would remain after the operation of shav- ing had been performed with a blunt knife , or a pair of scissars as to their hair , it was altogether in a state of ...
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... rudely scraped off , and comprise the jacket and trowsers all in one piece . The machines are of a simple structure ; consisting of an upright stick , three or four feet the country I here walked over , to any thing 18 REIKEVIG .
... rudely scraped off , and comprise the jacket and trowsers all in one piece . The machines are of a simple structure ; consisting of an upright stick , three or four feet the country I here walked over , to any thing 18 REIKEVIG .
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... feet from the bottom . From near this instrument of punish- ment , two rows of houses run parallel for some hundred yards , in a south direction , and form a tolerably wide street ; but so encumbered with pieces of rock , that , if ...
... feet from the bottom . From near this instrument of punish- ment , two rows of houses run parallel for some hundred yards , in a south direction , and form a tolerably wide street ; but so encumbered with pieces of rock , that , if ...
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