lava-masses

Updated: June 3, 2025

My pen is unfortunately too feeble to bring vividly before my readers the picture such as I beheld it here, and to describe to them the desolation, the extent and height of these lava-masses. I seemed to stand in a crater, and the whole country appeared only a burnt-out fire.

Ida Pfeiffer - Visit to Iceland : and the Scandinavian North