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... Stream is then able to take a higher sweep , and a succession of mild winters ensue till the ice - fields have again recovered their southern position . This advance and shrinking of the ice is an infallible index to the changes in the ...
... Stream is then able to take a higher sweep , and a succession of mild winters ensue till the ice - fields have again recovered their southern position . This advance and shrinking of the ice is an infallible index to the changes in the ...
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... streams , seaming the flats in all directions : these are the leading features of the scene , and the minor details ... stream is taken and tossed in spray high above the cliffs over which it shoots . The islands form a syssel or county ...
... streams , seaming the flats in all directions : these are the leading features of the scene , and the minor details ... stream is taken and tossed in spray high above the cliffs over which it shoots . The islands form a syssel or county ...
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... stream flowing from the lake , and near the bridge , is the bishop's palace , a wooden booth , tarred all over , much like a settler's cabin in a Canadian clearing ; I saw flowers in the window , and little girls peeping out between the ...
... stream flowing from the lake , and near the bridge , is the bishop's palace , a wooden booth , tarred all over , much like a settler's cabin in a Canadian clearing ; I saw flowers in the window , and little girls peeping out between the ...
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... stream into the shops after me , throng so closely round me that I can hardly move , listen to what I say , eye me from head to foot , ask the price of every article of clothing I have on ; bid for my knicker- bockers , which , of ...
... stream into the shops after me , throng so closely round me that I can hardly move , listen to what I say , eye me from head to foot , ask the price of every article of clothing I have on ; bid for my knicker- bockers , which , of ...
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... stream over a bank of pebbles , before it hushed its murmurs in the bogs . In another hour the sun would be above the horizon , so we hastened to our beds on the hard ground , using our saddles for pillows , and our horse- rugs for ...
... stream over a bank of pebbles , before it hushed its murmurs in the bogs . In another hour the sun would be above the horizon , so we hastened to our beds on the hard ground , using our saddles for pillows , and our horse- rugs for ...
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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