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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 66 ' heithi features . Mountains . Volcanoes . base towards the east , extending b2 INTRODUCTION.
... 3,500 square miles of unexplored snow recesses . North of this tri- angular mountain system is a triangular elevated plain , with the 66 ' heithi features . Mountains . Volcanoes . base towards the east , extending b2 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 bishop 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 flung Gellir Geysir Glámr grass Greenland Grettir grey Grímr hands head heap heithi Hekla hill Hólar horses Hrolleifr Icel Iceland Illugi Ingimund island Jökull Jón Katla Kolr Krafla lake land lava looked merchant miles morning mountain Myvatn natives never night Oddr Ofeigr Periphrasis pony priest quoth reached Reykjanes Reykjavík ride river rock rode rolled round saddle Saga sand Savigniac side snow spot spring stone stood story stream Strokr summer Svínavatn swans Thorbjorn Thorfin Thorgils Thorhall Thorir Thorstein trachyte Trölladyngja tún turf vale Vatnsdalr vessel visited whilst whimbrel wild wind winter