. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. 114 THE
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. 114 THE POLAU COAST OF ICIiLANU. I â â r CHAPTER VIII. TIIK WESTMAN ISLANDS. Tho Wesfmans.âTheir extreme DiffiruUy of Access.âllow they became peopled.âHeimaey.â Knufstathir and Ofanloj'te.â Shcep-hoistiii;;.â K^fi-fjathciin^.â Dreadful Mortality aiiioiij^ ilie Children.âTho Giiikloli.âGentleman John.âThe Algeriuo Pirates.âDreadful Sufterings of the iKlandcrs. "OTSIXG abrnptly from the sea to a height of 91G feet, the small Westman -*-*' Islands afo no less picturesque tlian cliffieult of access. Many a traveller while ^ alonj? the south coast of Iceland admired their towering rock- walls, but no modern toiu-ist has ever landed there. For so stormy a sea rolls between them and tho mainland, and so violent are the currents, wliich the slightest wind brings forth in the narrow chaiuiels of the archipelago, that a landing can be effected oidy when the weather is perfectly calm. Tho Dri- fanda foss, a cascade on the opposite mainland, rushing from the brow of the Eva- fyalla range in a column of some ROO or 000 feet in height, is a sort of barometer, which decides whether a boat can ])ut off with a prospect of gaining the West- mans. In stormy weather the wind etldying :.mong the cliffs converts the fall, though considerable, into a clotid of spray, which is dissipated in the atmos- phere, so that no cascade is visible from the beach. In calm weathe
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