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Page 48
While yet full a mile from the spot, the superior verdure of the grass, that was
within the influence of the heat, was very remarkable. What struck me as most
extraordinary in this spring, though I afterwards found it not to be uncommon in
Iceland, ...
While yet full a mile from the spot, the superior verdure of the grass, that was
within the influence of the heat, was very remarkable. What struck me as most
extraordinary in this spring, though I afterwards found it not to be uncommon in
Iceland, ...
Page 63
and we then took a little walk about the island, which is scarcely more than two
miles in circumference, and is one of the most fertile spots belonging to Iceland,
producing some of the best sheep, besides excellent cows, horses, peat, and
good ...
and we then took a little walk about the island, which is scarcely more than two
miles in circumference, and is one of the most fertile spots belonging to Iceland,
producing some of the best sheep, besides excellent cows, horses, peat, and
good ...
Page 81
In some parts of the way, there was a track which led us to the spot; but all traces
of this track were lost when we came on a small morass, and it was an hour
before we reached the Hraun. At a little distance, this huge mass of lava has a
most ...
In some parts of the way, there was a track which led us to the spot; but all traces
of this track were lost when we came on a small morass, and it was an hour
before we reached the Hraun. At a little distance, this huge mass of lava has a
most ...
Page 85
The worst of all was, that I could not well have chosen a more barren spot for
plants, in so long a ramble; though I met with one species that delighted me much
, and made me for a time forget the fatigue: this was Andromeda hypnoides *,
which ...
The worst of all was, that I could not well have chosen a more barren spot for
plants, in so long a ramble; though I met with one species that delighted me much
, and made me for a time forget the fatigue: this was Andromeda hypnoides *,
which ...
Page 87
... night, and so plentiful were they in a pool a little below this spot, that in a few
minutes one of oar boatmen caught six, by striking a. pole, with LAX ELBE. 87.
... night, and so plentiful were they in a pool a little below this spot, that in a few
minutes one of oar boatmen caught six, by striking a. pole, with LAX ELBE. 87.
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abundant afforded Althing Amptman appeared Arngrim basin Bishop boiling bolus called chasm church clothes coast color considerable Count Tramp Danes Danish Deduction distance Ditto Egclosen elevation eruption Etatsroed expences extremely feet fish foot formed Fuci Geyser ground height horses hot-springs hundred Iceland Icelandic language inhabitants Jokul journey Kings of Norway lake land Lapland lava Lichen Lychnis alpina Margaret and Anne miles milk morass morning mountains natives nearly northern Norway o'clock observed Odin ornamented Phelps pieces of rock plants Povelsen and Olafsen priest Provstie qu'il quantity Reikevig remarkable Reykholt river rix-dollars Savigniac scarcely seen sheep shore side Sir John Stanley Sir Joseph Banks Skalholt snow species Splachnum vasculosum spot spring Stephensen Stiftsamptman stone stream summit Syssel Sysselman tain tents thick Thingevalle tion Total sum Troil turf vegetation vessel Voyage en Islande whole wind
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Page lxxi - Right against the eastern gate, By the moss-grown pile he sate ; Where long of yore to sleep was laid The dust of the prophetic maid. Facing to the northern clime, Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced, in accents dread, The thrilling verse that wakes the dead : Till from out the hollow ground Slowly breathed a sullen sound.
Page 274 - The rocky summits, split and rent, Formed turret, dome, or battlement, Or seemed fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever decked, Or mosque of Eastern architect.
Page 40 - Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vites conveniat, quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo sit pecori, apibus quanta experientia parcis, hinc canere incipiam.
Page 69 - In his own excuse, he* pleaded his age for not following our example, to which we could make no reply. We devoured with difficulty our eggs and cream ; but had no sooner dismissed our plates, than half a sheep, well roasted, came on, with a mess of sorrel (rumexacetosa,) called by the Danes scurvy-grass, boiled, mashed and sweetened with sugar.
Page 271 - Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari, satis notum est : ne pati quidem inter se junctas sedes. Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit. Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis : suam quisque domum spatio circumdat, sive adversus casus ignis remedium, sive inscitia aedificandi.
Page 143 - On reaching the top of this siliceous mound, I looked into the perfectly circular basin, which gradually shelved down to the mouth of the pipe or crater in the centre, whence the water issued. This mouth lay about four or five feet "below the edge of the basin, and proved, on my afterwards measuring it, to be as nearly as possible seventeen feet distant from it oh every side; the greatest difference in the distance not being more than a foot.
Page 52 - ... bring it to the water's edge, and, after launching it, embark and place themselves round the heap, with their heads joined over it and their backs to the water, their tails pendent in the stream, serving the purpose of rudders.
Page 148 - And wide in air its misty volumes hurl'd Contagious atoms o'er the alarmed world: Nymphs, your bold myriads broke the infernal spell, And crush'd the sorceress in her flinty cell." In these two last lines the Doctor alludes, as he tells us in a note, to the eruption of a volcano which happened subsequently to the time of Sir Joseph Banks' be ing there, and which extended as far as the Geysers, and overflowed them with its lava.
Page li - ... giants. One day, as the sons of Bor, or the gods, were taking a walk, they found two pieces of wood floating upon the water; these they took, and out of them made a man and a woman. The eldest of the gods gave them life and souls; the second motion and knowledge; the third the gift of speech, hearing and sight, to which he added beauty and raiment. From this man and this woman, named Ask and Embla, is descended the race of men who are permitted to inhabit the earth.
Page liv - Then the powerful, the valiant, he who governs all things, comes forth from his lofty abodes, to render divine justice. He pronounces decrees. He establishes the sacred destinies which shall endure for ever. There is an abode remote from the sun, the gates of which face the north ; poison rains there through a thousand openings : this place is all composed of the carcasses of serpents : there run cerbu'n torrents, in which are plunged perjurers and assassins...
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| Title | Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809, Volume 1 Journal of a Tour in Iceland, Sir William Jackson Hooker Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809, Sir William Jackson Hooker |
| Author | Sir William Jackson Hooker |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 369 pages |
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