apparently much pleased at seeing strangers
in his church; and, on hearing that we were
about to set off for Skalholt in our wtiy tp
Hecla, he begged that we would call at his
house, which lay in the road, and would
permit him to accompany us to that place,
which we thankfully promised to do., Between
the chureh of Haukardal and the hill
Laugerfell, the morass abounded with the
beautiful little Ranunculus lapponicm in
full flower, a plant rare even in Lapland, the
country whence it takes its name; while in
the drier parts grew Car ex Reliar di, forming
a considerable portion of the herbage.
At the northern foot of Laugerfell the minute
Konigia islándica was in great profusion
and perfection, as was also Eriophorum
capitatum of Schrader, a species lately discovered
in Sweden. On my return to the
tents, I found both the Geyser and the New
Geyser in pretty nearly the same state of
fullness as when I left them, and they continued
so till about eight o’clock, when there
was an extremely fine eruption of the former.
The day had been clear but cold, with the
thermometer at 41°,
Monday, During the whole of the preceding
July 17' night, both the Geyser and the New
Geyser had remained perfectly quiet, but at
four this morning we were gratified in seeing
another eruption of the latter, equally magnificent
as that of yesterday, though it did
not last in all above an hour, and ceased
spouting more abruptly than the former
one: in every other respect the appearance
was the same, and a second sight of
this phenomenon did not at all detract
from its impressive splendor. During my
stay among the hot-springs, besides collecting
a number of fine and beautiful specimens
of the siliceous incrustation and other
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mineralogical productions, I filled from the
Geyser and the New Geyser half a dozen
bottles with water, none of which afterwards
effervesced *, or was subject to any change,
* Unlike the water taken from the largest well of
the springs near Reykum, in the parish of Huusevig, of
which Horrebow relates, page 22, that, “ if it is poured
into bottles it will still continue to boil up twice or
thrice, and at the same time with the water in the well.
Thus long will the effervescence continue after the water
is taken out of the well; but, this being over, it soon
quite subsides and grows cold. If the bottles are
corked up the moment they are filled, so soon as the