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... snow mountains , except at one point where a rivulet escapes , exists in the south of Vatna jökull , at Nupsstathr . I understood from a Danish merchant , that a singular forest is found near Rautharhöfn , completely encompassed by high ...
... snow mountains , except at one point where a rivulet escapes , exists in the south of Vatna jökull , at Nupsstathr . I understood from a Danish merchant , that a singular forest is found near Rautharhöfn , completely encompassed by high ...
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... snow , is a grim chasm , hitherto never reached by man . Hjörleif's Head is named after one of the first settlers in Ice- land . Hjörleif and Ingolf sailed from Norway together , but when the latter came on shore under the Orofa , the ...
... snow , is a grim chasm , hitherto never reached by man . Hjörleif's Head is named after one of the first settlers in Ice- land . Hjörleif and Ingolf sailed from Norway together , but when the latter came on shore under the Orofa , the ...
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... snow will not veil them , but only festoon their heads , now mellowed in the fresh beam of dawn ; the tremulous blue sea flickering along the sand flats , and frothing about the Needles of Portland , flashing white through the mighty ...
... snow will not veil them , but only festoon their heads , now mellowed in the fresh beam of dawn ; the tremulous blue sea flickering along the sand flats , and frothing about the Needles of Portland , flashing white through the mighty ...
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... snow- fields of Eyjafjalla . His life is one of daily peril , battling with the sea in slight fishing boats , or slung over the pre- cipices , collecting eggs , his life depending on the hair rope his own hands have woven , and these ...
... snow- fields of Eyjafjalla . His life is one of daily peril , battling with the sea in slight fishing boats , or slung over the pre- cipices , collecting eggs , his life depending on the hair rope his own hands have woven , and these ...
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... snow around him . As evening set in , we lost sight of the shore , which is low about Eyrarbakki , and we stood direct for Cape Reykjanes . There was a cry of " Whales ! " and we ran to the hurricane deck to have a view of the monsters ...
... snow around him . As evening set in , we lost sight of the shore , which is low about Eyrarbakki , and we stood direct for Cape Reykjanes . There was a cry of " Whales ! " and we ran to the hurricane deck to have a view of the monsters ...
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