We have formerly noticed that almost all the European islands are high.
In the Mediterranean we find the island of Crete reaching to upwards of
eight thousand feet in _Mount Ida_; Sicily, with its volcano of _Etna_
nine thousand six hundred and fifty-two feet; Sardinia with _Mount
Gennargentu_ (six thousand two hundred and ninety feet); Corsica, with
_Monte Rotondo_ (nine thousand and sixty-five feet); Iceland, on the
border of the Arctic seas, recalling Norway in its grand fiords, rises
high in its mass of volcanic jökulls (_Orœfa_, six thousand four hundred
and eight feet; _Hecla_, five thousand one hundred and ten feet),
covered in between with accumulated snows and glaciers; _Spitzbergen’s_
black peaks, which give its name, also rise high from its white glacier
fields.