VI. An Account of the Hot Springs near Haukadal in Iceland
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 ar...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0080456800020342 2024-03-03T08:45:45+00:00 VI. An Account of the Hot Springs near Haukadal in Iceland Stanley, John Thomas 1794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800020342 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800020342 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh volume 3, issue 2, page 138-153 ISSN 0080-4568 2053-5945 General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science journal-article 1794 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800020342 2024-02-08T08:35:58Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Cambridge University Press Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 3 2 138 153 |
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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. |
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