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After we had paft Cape Nord, of tlid
northern extremity o f Iceland, we
met with fome .warm fprings at
Reykar-fiord ; others, together with a
fine bath, at Biarnar-fiordr near Kal-
dadarna : at Hriita-fiorden there is a
great bver calle Reike-hver, and another
as large at Midfiorden, called
Reikalang. When you go from hence
fouihward into the country, you will
find a numbeF of boiling fprings at
Hverevalle, three of which fpout the
water high into the air with a prodigi^
ous noife; ftill further to the fouth
there is a hver near Geitland’s Jokul.
If we turn again to the north, v/e
find hot fprings at Blanda, others near
the haven at Skaga-Strand, and ftiJi
more tit a little diftance from thence
at Skaga-fiorden ; one o f which falls
from a rock thirty feet high. To
the eaft there are hot fprings in many
places of Vadle Syflel, as at Olais-
fiordr, Langaland, Kriftnas, atid Hrai-
negil ; but in Thingo Syffel there
are fprings of both forts (baths and
hvers) in great number, and of confiderable
dimenfions. The hvers in
Reykia
Reykia Valley deferve to be particu^
larly mentioned, amongft them Oxe
and Badftofu are the largeft.
On the eaft fide o f the country there
are no confiderable hvers, though warm
fprings are to be found in Selar, Lau-
garvalle, Rafukells, and Fliots valleys 5
and on the fouth, on Torfa Jokul.
We then proceeded to Skallholt, where
there are many fprings; about a mile
from thence the hvers, called Reikholt
and Grafa, which both fpout very
high. The next hver is Geyfer, which
I Ihall afterwards mention more minutely.
Not far from this laft is Laugervatn,
a fmall lake, round which a
number of warm fprings may be obferved,
and eight boiling ones. The
road now leads us to the hvers at
Oelves, that are thought to be the
largeft in all Iceland ; the moft remarkable
of v>?hich are Geyfer and
Badftofu.
Here is alfo a dry hver, water formerly
proceeded from it, but now
it emits only fteam at the month ; the
heat of which however is fo great, that
a pot