Th 
mountains. 
Ami vreiriilr * ’“'"Is “ lml)l)liii!' p,-issa;;e bnri-t ; 
• Tiiojisox 
2r 
being 'Viter springs, 
*ire, so visihlp. ii operation.s of subtemmeoiis- 
“ft- p^p-iy 
of Mount Hccla, given 
They 
parsed' over th'^wb volcanoes, but are dis- 
»" the .»n,„|r3tev?™3’ 
wrgest and most n-iv.., -i m mountains. The 
held, about sixteen miie^ f «in"ited in a lai’ge- 
great distance from "t «knlholt. At a 
red with ice ™ high mountains 
above the clouds’ whiU°'' ^ Hecla is seen rising 
■°ot of w£, r, ® 
At the distance of -- - tushes forth 
^^"^ered with ice, 
ibe foot of whfr’h'w'nf. a ridge of rocks, al 
At the distance of i !, a*' '■° '■“ne tushes forth, 
beard, like Uiat of‘a ‘"“'‘"g noise is 
rocks, each eiectinn* Precipitated from stupendous 
raneous detonation? -p|"S ‘‘'^''“iipunied by violent subter- 
the water rushes Ins ff ^b'ptli ot the opLiiing from which 
^apse before a ston^'^u ascertained, but some seconds 
Danish traveller O? 'brown m reaches the surlhco. I'he 
bigh as sixty asserts, tliat the water rises ;is 
b‘ghestjetatnot:?T"' "''bbe Van Troil estim.ntes the 
however, th.at the iet? sixty teet : the latter allows, 
>n bad weatlier. T|,„ be more elevated, partiailarly 
evinced by its not explosive power is 
sulking, but even fo,w P^^ubug s^nes thrown in from 
Jogedierwith Uie waw^ tbera up to a veiy great height, 
tliousand pieces Thl r, spbtiuig the pebbles into a 
»'vp hundred and tw?l by Van Troil to be 
^"it. The ed Js nf b'ulirenlieit, the boiling 
‘^I’srse stalactitic rioA jP'Pe or basin are covered by a 
■petrifying qualitv ^ ^mi "'uter has been found to have 
‘•meter nineteen frof b® ”Pcning is perfectly circular, in 
Ibe ground, a basin 'b'^ surface of 
is nine feet ^bovl^n"'"® ‘bameter, the edge of 
^ spouting springs. 
