Ages ago — who shall say how long — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and bubbling up from sources far away amid the inland hills, a fiery deluge must have rushed down between their ridges, until, escaping from the narrower... A Girl's Ride in Iceland - Seite 108von Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) - 1894 - 166 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1857 - 544 Seiten
...broad verdant1 plain of Thingvalla. Ages ago, — who shall say how long, — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and bubbling up from...surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either the vitrified mass contracting as it cooled, — the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Wonders - 1866 - 400 Seiten
...clothed. IM -J THINGVALLA. 173 " Ages ago — who shall say how long? — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and, bubbling up from...hills, a fiery deluge must have rushed down between itheir ridges, until, escaping from the narrower gorges, it found space to spread itself into one broad... | |
| Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1867 - 314 Seiten
...broad verdant1 plain of Thingvalla. Ages ago, — who shall say how long? — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and bubbling up from...an entire district of country, reducing its varied surfaceto one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either the vitrified mass contracting... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 Seiten
...be, and water in the place of fire.*" " Ages ago," says Lord Dufferin, " some vast commotion shoo^ the foundations of the island ; and bubbling up from...surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either, the vitrified mass contracting as it cooled, the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 614 Seiten
...and fissures fifty or sixty feet deep. ' Ages ago,' says Lord Dufierin, ' some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island ; and bubbling up from...surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either the vitrified mass, contracting as it cooled, the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 Seiten
...to be, and water in the place of fire." " Ages ago," says Lord Dufferin, " some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island ; and bubbling up from...hills, a fiery deluge must have rushed down between t^eir ridges, until, escaping from the narrower gorges, it found space to spread itself into one broad... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 780 Seiten
...to be, and water in the place of fire." " Ages ago," says Lord Dufferin, " some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island ; and bubbling up from...surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred : either, . the vitrified mass contracting as it cooled, the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Wonders - 1875 - 392 Seiten
...measure clothed. H 3 TH1NGVALLA. 173 " Ages ago — who shall say how long? — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and, bubbling up from...surface to one vast blackened level. " One of two things then occurred : either the vitrified mass, contracting as it cooled, the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1900 - 490 Seiten
...inland hills, a fiery deluge must have rushed down between their ridges, until, escaping from the narrow gorges, it found space to spread itself into one broad...surface to one vast blackened level. One of two things then occurred: either the vitrified mass contracting as it cooled,—the centre area of fifty square... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1900 - 480 Seiten
...verdant plain ' of Thingvalla. Ages ago, — who shall say how long, — some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and bubbling up from...down between their ridges, until, escaping from the narrow gorges, it found space to spread itself into one broad sheet of molten stone over an entire... | |
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