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THE LAVA DESERT OF ÓDÁ∂AHRAUN III. THE second part of my programme included the exploration of the western and southern portions of the Ódápart ahraun Desert. In this journey I spent a fortnight during the latter half of August, a thoroughly rough and arduous time, on account of the very unsettled weather alternating between cold and rain, tempestuous gales, snowstorms, and sand-hurricanes. My journey extended to 240 English miles, but only two oases of grass were discovered the whole way. Along the skirts of Vatnajökul, throughout the whole extent of the lavas and sand plateaus which form the northern fringe or border intersecting it from Ódá∂ahraun, not one single blade of grass, nay, not even signs of mosses or lichens, are anywhere discoverable, hence we were obliged to provide ourselves with fodder for the horses in the shape of hay, oats, and maize dough.
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THORODDSEN, T. Explorations in Iceland 1 . Nature 31, 173–174 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031173b0
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