Denmark recently accorded full sovereignty to Iceland by which the island enters the Danish Federation on equal terms with Denmark. Heographically and geologically Iceland is a part of—a continua-Gon of—the British [sies, states an article by the National Geographical Society, for it is situated on the same submarine ridge, stretching from southeast. to northwest across the North Atlantic. Iceland is not a bleak, arctic region, embedded in thick-ribbed ice, though its northernmost peninsula, Rifstangi, projects a mile north of the Arctic Circle.
No country op earth of equal size contains such varied and wonderful phenomena. The glaciers of Switzerland, the fiords, salmon rivers and midnight sun of Norway, the volcanoes, grottoes and solfataras of Italy, on a grander scale, the mineral springs Germany, the geysers of New Zealand, one of the largest waterfalls in the world—all are here. Nowhere has nature been so spendthrift in giving a geological lesson to man. If there be sermons in stones, volumes lie unread here. Here wr sce her titanic forces at work building up a country. Nowhere is it possible to study so the geological conditions prevailing toward the close of the glacial epoch in Europe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.