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o f about three hundred that I am
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L E T T E R
L E T T E R XVI.
To Chevalier I h r e .
Of the Remains of Antiquity in Iceland.
Stockholm, Dec. 21, 1774.
Dear Sir,
HOW infinitely happy ihould I be,
were I able to fatisfy your curioiity
in refpeft to the great number
of remarkable and antient monuments
with which Iceland is fuppofed
to abound: but this is out of my power;
all the information I can give you
amounts to no more than that the
country is fo deilitute of them, that
it is in vain to go in fearch of any antiquities
deferving the leail notice.
There are however fome ruins of an
old caftle near Videdal, which was
formerly about two hundred perches
in circumference: the remains on
the north fide are about twenty
fathoms
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