. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. HI'. 87 I f'ai>itiil. ' Tlic town,' siivH liord DnH'criii," 'rcnisists o\' w collt'clion of wooden slicds, oni' stf)ry lii;^li -visini^ licro iind tlioro into a pablo end of ^'router ]»n'tt'nsioiis—l)uilt alon^' tlic liivii tnick, iind fliinkrd at citlior end l)v a muImmI) ot" tiii'f huts. On cvt'i'j side of it cxiciids a dfsoliiti' plain of lava, tliat once ninst have hoilcd up ird-hot IVoni soiiie di
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. HI'. 87 I f'ai>itiil. ' Tlic town,' siivH liord DnH'criii," 'rcnisists o\' w collt'clion of wooden slicds, oni' stf)ry lii;^li -visini^ licro iind tlioro into a pablo end of ^'router ]»n'tt'nsioiis—l)uilt alon^' tlic liivii tnick, iind fliinkrd at citlior end l)v a muImmI) ot" tiii'f huts. On cvt'i'j side of it cxiciids a dfsoliiti' plain of lava, tliat once ninst have hoilcd up ird-hot IVoni soiiie distant eMtcway of licll, and fallen hissini,' into the sea. No tree or hush reliev<'s the di'eariness of the landscape, and the mountains ai'e too distant to serve as a haekyronnd to the hniidiii<?s; but before the door of each mendiiint's lionse facinfj the sea, there Hies a ; y little pennon; and as yon widk alonnf the silent streets, whose dust Jio carriaLTi'-wlietd has ever di'seerated, the rows of llower-|iots tiiat peep out of the windows, between curtains of white nnislin, at once convince you, that notwithstanding^ tlieir unprelendinf^ ap- pearance, within each dwellinj^ I'ei^'n the eley-ance and conil'orl of a w oman-tenih'd home.' Twenty years since, Jkeykjavik was n<» belter than a u'retche(l lishin<jf village, now it already luindn'rH I,MI0 iiihaijitants, and iVee-trade [)romises il a still greater inonnise the future. It owes its [intsperity chiefly to its excellent port, and to the abundance onr- liood, whieli have in(bieed the Danish merchants to make it IlK'ir principal settlement. IMost of tlieni, however, merely visit it in summer like birds of passaj^e, airivin<,' in May with small carf^oes of foreit,'n poods, and leaving it a admire the wonders of the Geysirs. The most busy time of the town is however the beginning of July, when the annual fair attracts a great number of iisliermen and peasants within its walls. From n distance ' '
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