Category: Travel Writing
The author hopes to make it evident that “Thule” was used according to date in five several senses--a sufficient reason for the confusion which has so long invested the subject. It has been well remarked that no place is more often mentioned by the ancients than the “island hi...
The author hopes to make it evident that “Thule” was used according to date in five several senses--a sufficient reason for the confusion which has so long invested the subject....
4. Book ii., chap. 3, § 32, = p.28, establishes the position of Thule:Western parts are in E. long. (Ferro?) 29° N lat. 63° The Easternmost being in ” ” 31° 40´ ” 63° ” Northernmost ” ” ” 30° 20´ ” 63° 15´ ” Southernmost ” ” ” 30° 20´ ” 62° 40´ An...
5. ii. 358), who makes Thule the farthest of the Orcades; by thephilosopher Petrus Ramus (de la Ramée); by Johannes Myritius, who rather cleaves to the end of Britain; by the learned Vossius, who prefers the Hebrides or Orcades; by Buchner (...
6. iii. 148-304:Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | April | May. | June 28·1 | 26·9 | 27·8 | 33·1 | 39·8 | 45·6 Highest mean, 38·0 | 34·7 | 40·1 | 41·9 | 43·8 | 50·5 Lowest mean, 17·2 | 13·3 | 12·4 | 19·8 | 3...
7. CHAPTER I.Adieu, O Edinburgh! whether thou prefer to be titled Edina, Dun-Edin, Quebec of the Old World, the Grand Chartreuse of Presbyterianism, Modern Athens--a trifle too classical--or...
8. CHAPTER II.After sighting Cape Wrath, she bade adieu to “Earth’s proudest Isle,” and dashed north-west into the Deucalidian or Deucalidonian Ocean, the Mare Pigrum of the classics, the sea...
9. CHAPTER III.The latitude of Reykjavik--the residence of the governor and the Supreme Court of Judicature, the episcopal see, and the chief mercantile station--is N. 64° 8´ 26´´,[360] a litt...
10. CHAPTER IV.The Iceland Sunday begins at six P.M. on Saturday, and ends at following six P.M.; this precession is the case with the days in general; thus Sunday night here is the Saturday n...
11. CHAPTER V.The Reykjavikers may be distributed into four classes: the official, ecclesiastic, and civil; the merchants; the fishing-class; and the paupers. The visiting hour begins with no...