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company with a Avell-informed geologist, to whom, of
every other class of naturalists, Iceland must prove the
most inviting. For my own part, I never felt so strongly
my lack of knowledge in that interesting department of
science, until I set foot on the shore of Iceland.
V I S I T T O I C E L A N D ,
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CHAPTER I.
FROM LONDON TO TRONYEM.*
Binni„gl.ara-Livcipool-‘<Flo,verorYarro»” „„d |,„ u.. .r ,
* t. Jvilua and the fLt a dfvt” Gr a nw. Th o tt i • i
—Quarantine—F,„, sifEa J iftft Visit of Mr Rmdpv tv u Jmnyem
- l U l e a « f,„ ,„ Q u a f tf t “ ■ - U Mr. Oveson
Os. the 9th of June, 1834, I left London, and
leoted a day at that wonderful “Repertory of Arts ”
a e Soho trranufactory with Mr. Watt, who most
knrdly gave up Ins whole time to conduct me
rough the varied and extensive works earryinohftid
e ’ f i ! ^ '■»d^’-Mood, four
hundied artificers were constantly employed in the
manufacture of steam-engines and boilers alone:
M the a rg .™ e„ ,s o f Ihe W ¡ r t i f t ”' f t f t ”
chaiiHinir tlie namp n ■ ■ Quarterly against
oM y.ftor*’ d f f : ,
and Norway if I still ndl { *1, Sweden, Denmark,
OP c o o v h i o , ; f t i t - o f t o f t : : : f t s
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