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whale-blubber on the greensward. Two paths over the hills here 

 lead respectively to Akure3'i'i by different routes, in circuitous 

 crooks and turns, the course of one of the said two paths going 

 as far round as Skagafjord. 



Akureyri (lat. gV 40' N., long, 18^ 4' W.). August 3rd. 

 Akureyri, termed Ofjord in Danish, is situate more than thirty 

 miles from the entrance of the spacious Eyjafjordur, far to the 

 south, and nearly at its innermost extremity, and beyond these 

 thirty miles of sea thirty miles of valley succeed, and then 

 fifteen miles of desert. We enter the fjord about 1 p.m. Its 

 western cliffs, near to which we are coasting, are for a while 

 barren, indented by perpendicular fissures, and descending sheer 

 into the sea, and down lower receding behind a dip of the land 

 or a sloping valley of greensward, which is permeated by a water- 

 course that trickles down. Akureyri, as seen from the water, 

 appears to consist of two distinct hamlets ; it is, however, 

 possible that further inland other houses, unseen from the 

 steamer, may form a connecting link. A terrrible odour reaches 

 us as we stand on deck, from the shark-oil factory, notwithstanding 

 that it is situate a considerable distance from where our steamer is 

 anchored. More vegetables, and potatoes in particular, as far as 

 I can judge, are grown on the adjacent slopes here than in any 

 other place that I have yet visited in Iceland. Pouring rain set 

 in before we left the steamer and continued all the time we were 

 on shore and lasted through the evening, while a dense mist 

 enveloped the surrounding hills from our view, so that the only 

 capture I effected was that of one Phrygania, and Mr. Jomhur- 

 sson's little boy gave me a Noctua when I called at his house. 



August 4th. There was more rain early this morning. By 

 the time I went on shore, however, it had almost stopped, and I 

 walked up to the top of the moor, accompanied by three of Mr. 

 Jomhursson's children. Creoxjhilus niaxillosus, Carabidse, and 

 other Coleoptera, under stones ; three or four Geometridse seen. 

 CaUiphora abundant on the windows of the church, which is a 

 ver}^ neat edifice, with galleries on either side and at the west 

 end, and a picture of the Crucifixion over the communion-table. 

 Large numbers of CaUiphora also lying dead on the window-sills 

 and the floor. The cemetery or churchyard is situate at the top 

 of the moor, which is covered with the seed-vessels of Dryas 

 octopetala. Viola tricolor, a flower I had not seen before in 

 Iceland, is abundant on the slopes here, and also along the coast- 

 road to Oddeyri, distant perhaps one English mile, and where 

 the shark-oil factory is situate, a short distance from the other 

 part of the parish of Akureyri, whence I took boat for the 

 steamer, which had moved in the interval for a short space to 

 that end of the bay. The above-mentioned coast-road is closely 

 hemmed in between the waves on one side and a grassy slope on 

 the other, and almost covered in one or two places by the water. 



