. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . 54 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [VII. the other hand, in the Almanna Gja, you can easily distinguishon the one face marks and formations exactly corresponding,though at a different level, with those on the face opposite, socleanly were they I Plain of Lava plateau 5 Rabna Gja. 2 Lake. 4 Almanna Gja. 2. Is the sea of lava now lying on the top of the originalsurface. Its depth I had no means of ascertaining, 3. Is the level of the surface first formed when the
. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . 54 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [VII. the other hand, in the Almanna Gja, you can easily distinguishon the one face marks and formations exactly corresponding,though at a different level, with those on the face opposite, socleanly were they I Plain of Lava plateau 5 Rabna Gja. 2 Lake. 4 Almanna Gja. 2. Is the sea of lava now lying on the top of the originalsurface. Its depth I had no means of ascertaining, 3. Is the level of the surface first formed when the lavawas still hot. 4. Is the plain of Thingvalla, eight miles broad, its surfaceshattered into a network of innumerable crevices and fissuresfifty or sixty feet deep, and each wide enough to have swal-lowed the entire company of Korah. At the foot of the plainlies a vast lake, into which, indeed, it may be said to slope,with a gradual incUnation from the north, the imprisonedwaters having burst up through the lava strata, as it subsidedbeneath them. Gazing down through their emerald depths, YIL] THINGVALLA. 55 you can still follow the pattern traced on the surface of thebottom, by cracks and chasms similar to those into whichthe dry portion of Thingvalla has been shivered. The accompanying ground plan will, I trust, complete whatis wanting to fill up the
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