and
xi.]
[Footnote 102: They were now in a country far removed from the Affghans,
and hostile to that people.]
[Footnote 103: The remainder of this paragraph is in Captain Burslem's
own words.]
[Footnote 104: I am indebted for the knowledge of the existence of these
caves to W.A. Sandford, Esq., F.G.S., who informed me that an account of
them was to be found in a book of travels by an English officer. I am
not aware that they have been visited on any other occasion than this.]
[Footnote 105: _Reise durch Island_, Copenhagen, 1744 (being a German
translation from the original Danish), i. 128 sqq.]
[Footnote 106: _Henderson's Iceland_, ii. 189 sqq.]
[Footnote 107: Pp. 145 sqq.]
[Footnote 108: The Sturlunga, Landnama, and Holmveria Sagas.]
[Footnote 109: Two priests determined to solve the mystery of this
unapproachable valley, the Aradal, or Thoris-thal, with its rich meadows
and gigantic inhabitants, and made an expedition for this purpose in
1664. They reached a point where the glaciers fell off into a valley so
deep that they could not see whether there were meadows at the bottom or
not, and the slope was so rapid that it was impossible to descend.
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