VI. An Account of the Hot Springs near Haukadal in Iceland

• Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Stanley, John Thomas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1794
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800020342; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800020342

Dear Sir, Part of my promise has been accomplished in a former letter, in which I gave you the fullest account I could of the springs of boiling water that rise in the valley of Rykum. It now remains for me to send you a description of those we visited in the neighbourhood of Haukadal. These last are the most remarkable in the island, and the eruptions of water from some of them so astonishing, that I doubt whether any adequate idea of their effect can be given by description. Abler pens than mine might fail probably in attempting to do justice to such wonderful phenomena. The objects, however, are so highly interesting in themselves, that even the simplest narrative that can be given of them will be read with more than ordinary attention.