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Title: Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902
Subjects: Arctic regions Iceland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
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ct of coun-try, reducing its varied surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either the vitrified masscontracting as it cooled,—the centre area of fifty square milesburst asunder at either side from the adjoining plateau, andsinking down to its present level, left the two parallel Gjas,or chasms, which form its lateral boundaries, to mark thelimits of the disruption ; or else, while the pith or marrow ofthe lava was still in a fluid state, its upper surface becamesolid, and formed a roof beneath which the molten streamflowed on to lower levels, leaving a vast cavern into whichthe upper crust subsequently plumped down.2 1 The plain of Thingvalla is in a great measure clothed with birchbrushwood. 2 I feel it is very presumptuous in me to hazard a conjecture on asubject with which my want of geological knowledge renders mequite incompetent to deal; but however incorrect either of the abovesuppositions may be justly considered by the philosophers, they will
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52 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. (VII. The enclosed section will perhaps help you a little tocomprehend what I am afraid my description will have failedto bring before you.

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