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... SNOW PASS . I hold a Levee - My Plans upset - The Church of Thverá - Taking French Leave Swimming across a River - MSS . Sagas - Jón's Bills- Runaway Ponies - Rocky Spires - Perverseness of Grímr - A Mountain Sel - A fearful Pass ...
... SNOW PASS . I hold a Levee - My Plans upset - The Church of Thverá - Taking French Leave Swimming across a River - MSS . Sagas - Jón's Bills- Runaway Ponies - Rocky Spires - Perverseness of Grímr - A Mountain Sel - A fearful Pass ...
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... 3,500 square miles of unexplored snow recesses . North of this tri- angular mountain system is a triangular elevated plain , with the 99 features . Mountains . Volcanoes . base towards the east , extending b 2 99 362 INTRODUCTION.
... 3,500 square miles of unexplored snow recesses . North of this tri- angular mountain system is a triangular elevated plain , with the 99 features . Mountains . Volcanoes . base towards the east , extending b 2 99 362 INTRODUCTION.
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... snow during the hottest portion of the summer ; but the latter are shrouded in eternal ice . The conformation of the mountains is very varied . The jökulls have generally rounded heads of ice resting on abrupt flanks of rock . This ice ...
... snow during the hottest portion of the summer ; but the latter are shrouded in eternal ice . The conformation of the mountains is very varied . The jökulls have generally rounded heads of ice resting on abrupt flanks of rock . This ice ...
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... snow - covered , or continually veiled in mist , which the sea - breeze brings up with it . The noblest of these is the Isa - fjord in the north - western peninsula , fifty - two miles long , and winding between magnificent mountains ...
... snow - covered , or continually veiled in mist , which the sea - breeze brings up with it . The noblest of these is the Isa - fjord in the north - western peninsula , fifty - two miles long , and winding between magnificent mountains ...
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... snow : a bed of soft mud and stone is thus formed , which is particularly trying to the horses , who sink in it to their knees , and cut their hoofs with the rocky splinters . There are a considerable number of caves in Iceland , formed ...
... snow : a bed of soft mud and stone is thus formed , which is particularly trying to the horses , who sink in it to their knees , and cut their hoofs with the rocky splinters . There are a considerable number of caves in Iceland , formed ...
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Akureyri Alleluiah Althing answered asked basalt beautiful bird Bjarg blue boat boiling bonder Briggs brother brought called church clouds cold colour crag Danish door Drangey Edmund Evans Egill eruption exclaimed eyes farm farmer father feet fish fjord Gellir Geysir Glámr grass Greenland Grettir grey Grímr Grimsey hands head heap heithi Hekla hill Hólar horses Hrolleifr Icel Iceland Icelandic horse Illugi Ingimund island Jökull Jón Katla Kolr Krafla lake land lava looked merchant miles morning mountain Myvatn natives never night Norway Oddr Ofeigr passed pony priest quoth reached Reykjanes Reykjavík ride river rock rode rolled round saddle Saga sand side snow spot spring stone story stream Strokr summer Svínavatn swans Thorbjorn Thorfin Thorgils Thorhall Thorir Thorstein Trölladyngja tún turf vale Vatnsdalr vessel visited whilst whimbrel wild wind winter
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Page 95 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 189 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 203 - ... through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers, and troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts. Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.
Page 23 - ... breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark ; it comes without regard 'to any wind, appears the first of May, and goes away about the middle of June.
Page 336 - And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Page xlvi - And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Judges of the Courts of Vice- Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
Page 325 - ... determine their relative strength. When this has been fairly ascertained, they advance to the brink of the precipice; and, taking each other by the tail, the weakest descends first, while the strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox pulls with all his might, and the rest assist him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to...
Page 364 - Five strokes underground were the signal, then an overflow, wetting every side of the mound. Presently a dome of water rose in the centre of the basin and fell again, immediately to be followed by a fresh bell, which sprang into the air full 40 feet high, accompanied by a roaring burst of steam.
Page 23 - Gairfowl, being the stateliest, as well as the largest sort, and above the size of a Solan goose, of a black colour, red about the eyes, a large white spot under each, a long broad bill...
Page 117 - The farmer was not exactly a chieftain ; but he was well enough connected to be considered respectable. To back up his gentility, he possessed numerous flocks of sheep, and a goodly drove of oxen. Thorhall would have been a happy man but for one circumstance, — his sheep-walks were haunted. Not a herdsman would remain with him. He bribed, threatened, entreated, all to no purpose. One shepherd after another left his service ; and things came to such a pass, that he determined on asking advice at...