The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

ICELAND. 35Eound the coast the lakes at many points approach the outer fiords, withwhich they were formerly connected, and we occasionally meet with basins whichseem to belong both to the land and sea. Thus Olafsson and Palsson speak of a lakenorth of the Snaefells-Jokull, on the shores of the Olafs-FjorSr, where both freshand salt water fish are still taken—amongst the latter the common cod, the blackcod, flounder, and skate, all smaller than those of the high seas, but of excellentFig. 14.ALMANNAOji.flavour. There is probably no other instance on the globe of salt-water inlets thuschanged into fresh-water reservoirs, where so many marine species have becomenaturalised. The same Icelandic explorers amongst the semi-marine lakesmention the Diupalon, near the extremity of the Snaefells-Jokull headland. Thislake is apparently cut off from the sea by a barrier of lavas ;yet there must besome communication, since it ebbs and flows regularly. Nevertheless its waters aresweet, so that, the tides must act from beneath in the same way that they do on