PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF FARÖE AND ICELAND.

“To the ocean now I fly,

And those northern climes that lie

Where Day never shuts his eye.”

Comus.

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THE GREAT GEYSER IN ERUPTION.—See page 117.

iiiPEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES

OF

FARÖE AND ICELAND

WITH AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ICELANDIC

AND 51 ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY W. J. LINTON

BY

ANDREW JAMES SYMINGTON

Author of “Harebell Chimes,” “The Beautiful in Nature, Art, and Life,” &c.

LONDON

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS

1862

ivTO

LAURENCE EDMONDSTON, Esq., M.D.,

OF SHETLAND,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL PHYSICAL AND WERNERIAN SOCIETIES,

EDINBURGH;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL AND MANCHESTER

NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES, ETC.,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW

A.J.S.

May 1862.

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