bought of the proprietor of the place, and
cured two-thirds of them for exportation * ;
the remaining third being allotted to those
who gave their assistance at the fishery, as
a compensation for their trouble.
Wednesday, At six °’cl°ck thjs coming Mr.
July 26. Phelps and I set off for the purpose
of visiting the sulphur-springs of Krei-
sevig, which are about a day’s journey distant
from Reikevig. The first nine miles
brought us to the house of Mr. Sivertsen,
at Havnfiord, at which place, the great bed
of lava, called Gardehraun, forms a range
of cliffs to the sea, close by whose margin
masses of lava of vast size are dispersed in
such a manner, that a stranger would conceive
the passing of them to be scarcely practicable.
In other places we were obliged
* In this, as in many other points of view, it is unfortunate
for the Icelanders that Mr. Phelps’ stay was
so short among them; for in former years they have
had no means of disposing of the salmon they caught;
and, as the exporting of them on their own account
has been wholly out of their power, all beyond what
might be requisite for their own consumption has
been necessarily wasted.
to follow a very devious course, to avoid
great holes, of the shape of inverted cones,
which had every appearance of being the
eraters of volcanoes, that had been long
since extinguished. Havnfiord contains only
two or three merchants’ houses and their
factories, together with a few peasants huts
scattered about on the small patches of
grass that are here and there met with
among the hraun, from O ' which, indeed, they
are not easily distinguishable; the smaller
pieces of that substance composing the walls
of the cottages, whose turf roofs only differ
from the grassy patches in their superior
verdure. A considerable quantity of fish is
cured at this place, both for home consumption
and exportation. Among the speeies
used for the former purpose is the Cyclop-
torus Lumpus, to the different sexes of
which the natives have given different
names ; calling the male, Randmagc, a term,
applicable to it alone, from the circumstance
of its having a red1 belly, and the female,
Grasleppa, from being grey beneath. This
is one of the most hideous of all fishes in
appearance, but is highly curious from the
nearly circular fleshy appendage on the