Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Exploring in Iceland. [ARTICLE]

Exploring in Iceland.

Iceland is still a field for explorers. From a lecture delivered recently before the Berlin Geographical Society, by Herr Thoroddsen, the Icelandic explorer, it appears that a hitherto unknown group of lakes to the west of the glaciers Vatua Jokull has been discovered by him. Thoroddsen employed ten summers in making himself acquainted with the interior of Iceland, and during these ten journeys he was übQut 500 days in the saddle. It was necessary to be provided with food for himself and food for his horses, as he had endless deserts to cross, and met with very few human dwellings. Before July there is no possibility of traveling, the ground being too soft with snow water. Even in summer there arc ofteu terrible storms, and the glacier rivers are difficult to pass. Theie are, by the way, five printing presses in Iceland; ten newspapers and eight magazines are published, and that the Icelanders have a great impulse to intellectual production is proved by the fact that the 12,000 Icelanders who emigrated to Manitoba have founded twelve newspapers in their new colony.—[Boston Commercial.