Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . 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 i Gjas. 2 Lava deluge. 4 Thingvalla sunk to a lower level. 3 Original Astonished traveller. i. Are the two chasms called respectively Almanna Gja,1or Main Gja, and Hrafna Gja, or Ravens Gja. In the actof disruption the sinking mass fell in, as it were, upon itself,so that one
Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen . 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 i Gjas. 2 Lava deluge. 4 Thingvalla sunk to a lower level. 3 Original Astonished traveller. i. Are the two chasms called respectively Almanna Gja,1or Main Gja, and Hrafna Gja, or Ravens Gja. In the actof disruption the sinking mass fell in, as it were, upon itself,so that one side of the Gja slopes a good deal back as itascends; the other side is perfectly perpendicular, and atthe spot I saw it upwards of one hundred feet high. In thelapse of years the bottom of the Almanna Gja has becomegradually filled up to an even surface, covered with the mostbeautiful turf, except where a river, leaping from the higherplateau over the precipice, has chosen it for a bed. Youmust not suppose, however, that the disruption and land-slipof Thingvalla took place quite in the spick and span mannerthe section might lead you to imagine; in some places therock has split asunder very unevenly, and the Hrafna Gja isaltogether a very untidy rent, the sides having fallen in inmany places, and almost
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