The next morning we started for the Geysers; this time dividing the baggage-train, and sending on the cook in light marching order, with the materials for dinner. The weather still remained unclouded, and each mile we advanced disclosed some new wonder in the unearthly landscape. A three hours’ ride brought us to the Rabna Gja, the eastern boundary of Thingvalla, and, winding up its rugged face, we took our last look over the lovely plain beneath us, and then manfully set across the same kind of arid lava plateau as that which we had already traversed before arriving at the Almanna Gja.
Letters from High Latitude, being some account of a voyage in the schooner yacht Foam in 1856 (London, 1859).
FOOTNOTE:
[4] The plain of Thingvalla is in a great measure clothed with birch brushwood.
LAND’S END AND LOGAN ROCK
(ENGLAND)
JOHN AYRTON PARIS
“The sunbeams tremble, and the purple light
Illumes the dark Bolerium;—seat of storms,
High are his granite rocks; his frowning brow