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FROM ENGLAND TO ICELAND. 91 The spot on which we halt for a few minutes to look upon this panorama is one of the dreariest and most desolate that could be imagined, the mountain summit being literally covered with tremendous crags and boulders, which rise like islands out of the sea of stones that everywhere surrounds them. From this point we push on towards Heagill, whose snow-streaked sides tower above us on the left. On a little slope, considerably higher than the path along which we are travelling, are several hot sulphur-springs, the steam from which can be seen issuing from the ground. Here the path des- cends almost precipitously to a fine grass-covered plain, on which, however, not a single animal can be seen grazing. Having given the ponies a short rest, we commence another ascent, and shortly reach a scene of desolation wilder and more weird than anything that has as yet come under our notice. Rocks,rent by some Titanic convulsion, and split up into huge, blackened, sharp-peaked masses, hang over our head on both sides of the track, and shut us out from the brighter world beyond—from lake, plain, and glistening snows— by an encircling wall of mountains so bare, barren, and fire-blasted, as to remind us instinctively of that place which is “ filled with the blackness of darkness for ever.” Through a ravine, called “Dyravegur" or “ Door Way” we make our way out of this gloomy scene to a slope, whence, away beyond an extensive plain, we can once more see the blue waters of the distant ocean. On reaching the plain we halt for our even- ing meal, over which, however, we do not linger as we have still several hours’ journey before us, and
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From England to Iceland

Year
1886
Language
English
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