An account of the hot springs in Iceland : with an analysis of their waters / John Thomas Stanley.

  • Stanley, J. T. (John Thomas), 1766-1850.
Date:
[1791]
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Credit: An account of the hot springs in Iceland : with an analysis of their waters / John Thomas Stanley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vifited thefe particular fprings in 1772* may contri¬ bute to explain their hidory, and the caufe of their very lingular appearances. You received two kinds of water, one from a fpring near a farm called Rykum, and the other from the fountain known by the name of the Geyzer, the mod remarkable in the iiland. It rifes near the farm of Haukadal, about forty miles from Rykum. They <are both fituated in the S. W. divifion of the ifland. I fhall begin with a defcription of the country, and the fprings near Rykum, and of the fird view we had of them in our way from Rykavick to Mount Hecla. Rykum is lituated in a valley, which, on account of its fertility, and the drong contrad it made with the dreary fcenes we had patied dnce our lad dation, ap¬ peared to us with great advantage while we approached it. We had traverfed a country, feven or eight miles in breadth, entirely overfpread with lava, and other volcanic matter. It was furrounded with hills, not diffidently high to be majedic, and too rugged and too barren to be pleating. We were told by our guides, that on a clear day, the fummits of Hecla might be