Category: Travel Writing
The first newspaper printed in Iceland began in 1775: in the catalogue of writers prefixed to the work of Uno Von Troil, it is called the _Isländische Zeitung_. This Islendingur, not long defunct, gained considerable reputation; the back numbers are to be found at the College...
We were humanly threatened with rain on the fourth day, but my aneroid gave me better news. The principal difficulty was to find a guide for the southern Öræfi. Hr Pètur’s sons...
12. CHAPTER XI.We hastily collected the small quantity of _harnoys de gueule_ absolutely required--man eats less when travelling, and more when voyaging. Our stores represented a ham, one serv...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Travelling seawards from western to eastern Iceland is by no means so easy as the converse. I held myself lucky, though somewhat late, in finding the Postdampskibet “Diana” boun...
15. CHAPTER XIV.I cannot accuse myself of failing to do traveller’s duty at Mý-vatn: although the weather became raw and rainy, not an hour was wasted. The first step was to climb the nearest h...
9. CHAPTER IX.Right opposite Reykjavik rises an interesting block of mountains. Bearing due north is Akrafjall, bluff to the sea and sloping with a long dorsum inland; it is the western steep...
11. PART II.--TO GRAFARÓS.Our next station was at Flatey, on the other side of the Breiði Fjörð, one of a vast archipelago which we were slowly to thread. Like the “cedars of Lebanon,” three things in Ic...
7. CHAPTER VII.The weather makes the faintest struggles, even in mid-June, to be fine, but a tolerable day appears always to exhaust its efforts, and to be followed by a violent break. The Rey...
6. CHAPTER VI.The first newspaper printed in Iceland began in 1775: in the catalogue of writers prefixed to the work of Uno Von Troil, it is called the _Isländische Zeitung_. This Islendingur...
10. PART I.--STYKKISHÓLM.The “Jón Sigurðsson,” Captain Müller, ran into Reykjavik on June 26, and next day we set out to prospect Hafnafjörð, the Haven Firth, distant two bays south of the capital. Thre...
8. CHAPTER VIII.However, we take heart of grace to visit the islands. A boat is readily found at the Bridge-House pier, the centre of industry. Here are knots of fishermen, who might be in Leit...
13. CHAPTER XII.“The site of the ‘find’ will readily be found upon the four-sheet map of Gunnlaugsson and Olsen. Cast the eye eastward of the great southern stream ‘Markarfljót,’ mark or forest...
17. part iii., pp. 2 and 3. This old calcarelle furnace has been greatly[201] These two items are calculated at excessive and extravagant rates. The first item (15s. per ton) was supplied by an eminent shipowner, and the amount of freight is also ov...
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