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Page xix
... miles across at the narrowest part . The island is one - fifth larger than Ireland , and contains about 37,000 square miles . Its greatest length is 308 English miles , and greatest breadth 190. It is deeply indented with fjords on all ...
... miles across at the narrowest part . The island is one - fifth larger than Ireland , and contains about 37,000 square miles . Its greatest length is 308 English miles , and greatest breadth 190. It is deeply indented with fjords on all ...
Page xx
... miles of country perfectly barren and uninhabitable , and only partially explored . It has been estimated that but 4,000 square miles of Iceland are inhabited ; the rest of the country is a chaos of ice , desert , and volcanoes . The ...
... miles of country perfectly barren and uninhabitable , and only partially explored . It has been estimated that but 4,000 square miles of Iceland are inhabited ; the rest of the country is a chaos of ice , desert , and volcanoes . The ...
Page xxiv
... miles . The tract around Hekla covers an area twenty - five miles long by ten broad . Obsidian has flowed from some of the volcanoes , as well as lava . The most important streams are near Krafla , Hekla , and at As , in Hvítárdalr . I ...
... miles . The tract around Hekla covers an area twenty - five miles long by ten broad . Obsidian has flowed from some of the volcanoes , as well as lava . The most important streams are near Krafla , Hekla , and at As , in Hvítárdalr . I ...
Page xxvi
... miles long and between four and five miles wide . The contorted shape and irregularities of outline in Myvatn preclude one from giving any correct account of its dimensions . The Lagarfljót , in the east , is thirty miles long , but its ...
... miles long and between four and five miles wide . The contorted shape and irregularities of outline in Myvatn preclude one from giving any correct account of its dimensions . The Lagarfljót , in the east , is thirty miles long , but its ...
Page xxvii
... miles across , opens between capes Reykjanes and the silver sugarloaf of Snæfell . Breithi - fjord , studded with innu- merable islets , the home of myriads of eider and wild duck , is forty - five miles wide ; and Húnaflói , into which ...
... miles across , opens between capes Reykjanes and the silver sugarloaf of Snæfell . Breithi - fjord , studded with innu- merable islets , the home of myriads of eider and wild duck , is forty - five miles wide ; and Húnaflói , into which ...
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