THE ISLAND. 



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Most of the greater mountains have been, or are still, 

 volcanos ; and in truth the whole island owes its birth to 

 volcanic upheaval. So rough, so wild and rugged, is the 

 land, that it appears like a fragment torn from the bottom 



MOUXT HECKLA. 



of the deep, and elevated above the waves by some con- 

 vulsion of nature. 



Heckla is the volcano best known, because it lies to 

 the south of the island, and can be seen by passing shipS| 



