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Show WHERE NATURE IS UPSET. Many airaesn Inronsrnltlos round us leolundle Faenomena. Nature la all turned tnpsy-turvey In Iceland. Must poop's tegatd the Island simply os an out of the ray spot ot no particular consequence lo anybody under the sun, yet It supports a frugal, fru-gal, Industrious snd pious people. 1' hss alino-it a right to be called fire land, for there frost and Are ' are strangely mingled The lofty moun- i tains, towering sky rd, ai alud will ' anuw ilelds snd glaciers, yet at Hit same time send forth fire uud stetitn nnd molten rock. At times the eruption, erup-tion, suddenly hii.stlng forth, melts . the lie and snow ou the mountain 'ddes, snd great floods ru.-di down Into the valleys. On the cooled surfaco of Ihe lavs, flow lie snd snow nrcumuluto ntiil then pcrhupa a new flow of lava covers up (he lee without melting It. The ice is thus shut up ns In a great natural lee house, and may tie su preserved pre-served fur thousand" of years. l)f (lelkle mentions a case In which t layer of Ice Occurs between two beds of lava In a gcologlcul section. The antiquity of such a bed of Ico la to he measured In thousnnds and tens of thousands of years. On a smaller scale Is the famous Kls-hohln, a nat-urul nat-urul Ice house nut far from Cassol-burg, Cassol-burg, In the Klfel, There on the hottest hot-test day In the summer Ire Is ta be found. This Ice Is famous and waa always al-ways served at the table of the elector of Cologne. |