A Visit To Iceland And The Scandinavian North By Madame Ida Pfeiffer































































































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heard a greater noise than I have mentioned, and never felt any
trembling of the earth, although I - Page 163
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I Never Heard A Greater Noise Than I Have Mentioned, And Never Felt Any Trembling Of The Earth, Although I Paid The Greatest Attention To Every Little Circumstance, And Held My Head To The Ground During An Eruption.

It is singular how many people repeat every thing they hear from others - how some, with an over-excited imagination, seem to see, hear, and feel things which do not exist; and how others, again, tell the most unblushing falsehoods.

I met an example of this in Reikjavik, in the house of the apothecary Moller, in the person of an officer of a French frigate, who asserted that he had "ridden to the very edge of the crater of Mount Vesuvius." He probably did not anticipate meeting any one in Reikjavik who had also been to the crater of Vesuvius. Nothing irritates me so much as such falsehoods and boastings; and I could not therefore resist asking him how he had managed that feat. I told him that I had been there, and feared danger as little as he could do; but that I had been compelled to descend from my donkey near the top of the mountain, and let my feet carry me the remainder of the journey. He seemed rather embarrassed, and pretended he had meant to say NEARLY to the crater; but I feel convinced he will tell this story so often that he will at last believe it himself.

I hope I do not weary my readers by dwelling so long on the subject of the Geyser.

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