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Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 1/2

Note 52 — SECTION II. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ICELAND.

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To which may be added, neglecting the “Automata” of classical and mediæval times (Pliny, i. 89; Ruspe, de Novis Insulis, etc.), Arons Island (1628); Sorea of the Moluccas (1693); the offsets of Santorin (1707); Stromöe (1783); Graham Island, near Sicily, which, in 1831, was thrown up to a height of 750 feet, and the three outliers of Santorin (1866). These little worlds enable us to study Earth in the art of parturition.

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