Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 298
face, we took our last look overthe lovely plain beneath us, and then manfully setforward across the same kind of arid lava plateau asthat which we had already traversed before arriving atthe Almanna Gja. But instead of the boundless im-mensity which had then so much disheartened us, thepresent… … 262 A Book of Famous Travels shaped like a horseshoe, opened before us, encompassedby bare cinder-like hills, that rose round — red, black,and yellow — in a hundred uncouth peaks of ashand slag. Not a vestige of vegetation relieved thearidity of their vitrified sides, while the verdant carpetat…
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