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All the mliiiilers are natives or Icelanders,
and receive a yearly falary o f
400 or 500 rix-dollars from the king,
excluiive o f what they have from their
congregations,
L E T T E R VI.
T o Chevalier I h r e .
Of the CharaBer and Manner o f Life o f
the Icelanders.
Stockholm, Sept. i , 1774.
IN a former letter I treated o f the
arrival o f the Norwegians in Iceland,
o f their firil form o f government,
and the changes they experienced
through their own mifmanage-
ment and the viciffitudes o f time :
give me leave. Sir, to draw now your
attention to their character and way
of life.
In like manner as their anceftors
lived only by war, piracy, the chace,
and agriculture, fo our new Icelandic
colonifts were ftrangers to any fame
but that acquired by the ftrength o f
their arm, and knew no exercifes but
fuch as a hardened body was able to
fupport.
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