recommendation of Stiftsamptman Stephen-
sen as my own inclination, to avail myself
of the kind invitation given me by his son,
the Etatsroed and chief justice of the island,
and visit the district of Borgafiord where he
resides; but, as the care of my herbarium
and the arranging of the other collections
made in my late excursion, required two or
three days, I was unable to set out before
the following Friday, when the Stiftsamptman
again insisted upon supplying me with
horses, tents, &c. Independently, indeed,
of the preservation of my treasures, F had
also other motives for thus delaying my
journey to Borgafiord : one of them was my
wish to be present at the great salmon-
fishery, at a river not far from this town,
which was to take place on the twenty-fifth
of this month; and another was my desire to
visit the sulphur-springs of Kreisevig, which
Count Tramp had obligingly recommended
to my attention, as being amongst the
greatest curiosities that the island affords.
Sunday, We had now been so long in
Ju!y 23' anxious expectation of the arrival
of the Flora, another merchant-vessel belonging
to Mr. Phelps, which was to sail almost
immediately after us, that we began to fear
lest some accident should have happened
to her on the passage; and I felt myself
particularly uneasy on the subject, as I had
considerable reason to expect by her my
friend, Mr. Borrer, in whose company I
had found such pleasure the preceding
year, 'when he participated with me in the
fatigues and enjoyments of a tour through
the north of Scotland and the Orkney
Islands. It may, therefore, easily be guessed
how much, in my present situation,
when any society would be valuable, I
longed for that of a man, whose taste for
natural history was congenial to my own,
whose friendship I was well assured of, and
whose natural acuteness and various informa^
tion could not fail materially to promote
the object we both had in view. We were
consequently not a little gratified on having
word brought to us at two o’clock this morning,
that a vessel was beating into the bay,
and that she was, in all probability, the
Flora. On a nearer approach we were certain
of her being so; but it was not till four in
the afternoon, when she came to an anchor,
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