Across the Vatna Jökull: Or, Scenes in Iceland; Being a Description of Hitherto Unknown Regions

Front Cover
Longmans and Company, 1876 - Iceland - 202 pages

From inside the book

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 18 - A Treatise on the Steam Engine, in its various applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways and Agriculture. By J. Bourne, CE With Portrait, 37 Plates, and 546 Woodcuts. 4/0. 42s. Catechism of the Steam Engine, in its various Applications.
Page 16 - Kingdom : including a Glossary of Botanical Terms. Edited by J. LINDLEY, FRS and T. MOORE, FLS assisted by eminent Contributors.
Page 25 - ENCYCLOPAEDIA of RURAL SPORTS ; a complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, and all other Rural and Athletic Sports and Pastimes. By DP ELAINE. With above 600 Woodcuts (20 from Designs by JOHN LEECH).
Page 18 - The Theory of Strains in Girders and similar Structures, with Observations on the application of Theory to Practice, and Tables of the : Strength and other Properties of Materials. By BB STONEY, MA M. Inst. CE Royal 8vo. with 5 Plates and 123 Woodcuts, 36^.
Page 20 - The Treasury of Bible Knowledge; being a Dictionary of the Books, Persons, Places, Events, and other Matters of which mention is made in Holy Scripture; intended to establish its Authority ' and illustrate its Contents. By Rev. J. AYRE, MA With Maps, 15 Plates, and numerous Woodcuts.
Page 20 - LIBRARY EDITION-, with all the Original Illustrations, Maps, Landscapes on Steel, Woodcuts, &c. 2 vols. 4to. 48s. INTERMEDIATE EDITION, with a Selection of Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. 21s. STUDENT'S EDITION, revised and condensed, with 46 Illustrations and Maps.
Page 2 - The FALL of the ROMAN REPUBLIC ; a Short History of the Last Century of the Commonwealth.
Page 14 - The Orbs Around Us; a Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns. By RA Proctor, BA Second Edition, with Chart and 4 Diagrams. Crown 8vo. 'js. 6d. Other Worlds than Ours; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
Page 20 - An Introduction to the Theology of the Church of England, in an Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles. By the Rev. TP BOULTBEE, LL.D. Fcp.
Page 14 - Dove's Law of Storms, considered in connexion with the Ordinary Movements of the Atmosphere. Translated by RH SCOTT, MA 8vo. KM. dd. Air and Rain ; the Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology.

Bibliographic information