The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 13. köideA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... whole range of the southern Jökuls , * from the celebrated Hekla in The word Jökul is generally translated Glacier , or glacier - covered moun- tain . Henderson † ( in a foot - note , vol . i . p . 39 ) says , it " signifies an ice ...
... whole range of the southern Jökuls , * from the celebrated Hekla in The word Jökul is generally translated Glacier , or glacier - covered moun- tain . Henderson † ( in a foot - note , vol . i . p . 39 ) says , it " signifies an ice ...
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... whole range of Jökuls from Hekla to Oræfa , with the low- land intervening between them and the sea , would richly repay investigation or exploration by any of our geologists . " The phenomena of these vacillating jökuls , " says ...
... whole range of Jökuls from Hekla to Oræfa , with the low- land intervening between them and the sea , would richly repay investigation or exploration by any of our geologists . " The phenomena of these vacillating jökuls , " says ...
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... whole island . But I am the more inclined to regard an account of the recent eruption of Kötlugjá as an interesting , though very small , increment to geological knowledge , from the conviction , to which I have been led by studying the ...
... whole island . But I am the more inclined to regard an account of the recent eruption of Kötlugjá as an interesting , though very small , increment to geological knowledge , from the conviction , to which I have been led by studying the ...
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... whole map is so inaccurate that it cannot be relied on . Arrowsmith , in a chart of Ice- .... land published in 1808 , makes a mistake of no less than sixty - seven miles in the longitude of the east coast , as is pointed out by Barrow ...
... whole map is so inaccurate that it cannot be relied on . Arrowsmith , in a chart of Ice- .... land published in 1808 , makes a mistake of no less than sixty - seven miles in the longitude of the east coast , as is pointed out by Barrow ...
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... whole mountains and ranges of mountains , but probably also whole belts of country . Von Waltershausen regards it as probable that a belt of it stretches right across the island from S.W. to N.E. , or , in other words , from Cape ...
... whole mountains and ranges of mountains , but probably also whole belts of country . Von Waltershausen regards it as probable that a belt of it stretches right across the island from S.W. to N.E. , or , in other words , from Cape ...
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