Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1889 — A Land of Steam. [ARTICLE]

A Land of Steam.

Dr. Tlx. Thoroddsen reports that in the interior of Iceland last summer he visited some remarkable valleys in a mountain range called Kjerlingarfjoll. He discovered grand sulphur springs in great numbers, as well as innumerable large boiling mud pools—blue, red, yellow, and green in color. Steam penetrates everywhere through fissures in the eai*th, one jet, six to nine feet in height, keeping up such a continual roar that it was impossible to hear the loudest shouts in its vicinity. The greatest care had to be observed in walking on the thin crust of heated clay covering the boiling mud below.