OJ. MOUSTATNS. 
E<^mbaMi.an<i Dr. Van Troil, a SAvede, were dre ear bcj 
nCZrous travellers who ascended to the summit ^ 
Mount Hecla. This was in 177? 5 bid 
.f-ii-itinted bv a preceding eruption m 1/00, ''b'cn 
gready din/nished the steepness and .difficulty of the • 
Snt. On their first landing, they lound a.tract of 
Lty or seventy miles in extent, entirely tinned by 
Sh appeared to have been in a state of complete b 
tiuefacdon. To accomplish then undei taking, the) .j- 
U^vel from three hundred to diree hundred and sixty mi 
over u h terrupted tracts of lava. In ascending, they 
Xed to quit dieir horses at die first opemng fi^ 
vidikh the fire had burst : -a spot ivdiich “y 
presentiuo- lofty glazed walls and high glazed cliffs, 
KomW ffiing they had ever seen before. At 
niSmiiiK above, diey fancied they discerned the eftec ■ 
water; and^ot fiir irom thence, die mounbj 
with die exception of some bare spots, was corned 
This difference of a.spect diey soon peicened o 
I excepiiou ui ^ 
Sttow. Tliis difference of aspect tliey soon perceived 
... ^ 1 3 llj,!. ti.ocf. cimts he.caii ' 
occasioned by Uie Hot vapour ascraiu.ug , 
Tlie higher they proceeded, tile larger these spot - i, 
and, about two hundred yards below the summ , . ^ 
about a yard and a half in diameter, was obsened, wl 
Issued so hot a steam, that they codd not ^ 
The cold now he^ 
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degree ot beat witii a tneiiuuiiici^*. , * 
to be very intense. Fahrenheit’s thermometer, 
the foot of the moirataiii was at 54, fell to 24 ; 
wind became so violent, that diey were sometimes °bh=^ 
lie down, from a dread of being blown > 
dreadful precipices. On the summit itselt P , 
atone and the same time, a high degree of heat and ^4 
fb.-, in the air, Fahrenheit’s thermometer constantly 
at 24, but when placed on the ground, it rose to 53. / 
Messrs. Olafsen and Povelsen, two naturalists, -J 
travels in Iceland were undptaken by order of his V a 
Majesty, after a fatiguing jom-iwy up several small s y 
vH'^ch occurred at intervals, and seven ot which th^j^ 
to pass, at length reached the summit of Momit ^ 
Duidnio-ht. It was as light as at noon day, so that dier ^ 
a vlcw°of an immense extent, but could perceive nO 
but ice : neither fissures, streams of water, boiling sp ^ 
wnoke, nor fire, were apparent. They surv'eyed tbe 
