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Excerpt from The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1876, Vol. 46 From this point I obtained an excellent view of the Vatna J 6kull Honsie, and the snow-covered ridges leading up to its cone were perfectly discernible: they are probably latreams. An extensive eruption must be appallingfrom these volcanoes, when any great amount of lava is ejectednpon these vast accu mulations oficeand snow; butminoreruptions andsmallstreams of lava probabl make but little impression. The wind unfor tunately soon shifted to its old quarter, and we to ours. This last degree. Towards midnight, after Paul, I told my men it was of no use lying still any longer; sle' he could not travel, everything must be made into packs carried on the back; so, leaving our sleighs behind, we started, wading through the deep, loose, hea snow. Unfortunately two of my men became ill, which comps us a sin to halt. The next night we were favoured with a severe I therefore sent two men back served out some of Peek and Frean's we started again we made good pro gress northward. A fog shut down 11 us, but the rim of the sun was occasionally visible throng it, and bright fog bows WM up the rear to windward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.