VI. An Account of the Hor Srrines near Haukadal in Ice~ 
land: In a fecond Letter to Dr BLAcK from FoHN THOMAS 
STANLEY, E/q; M.P. F.S. A. A. Lonp. and F. R. S. Epin.. 
[Read April 30. 1792.] 
Dear SIR, Grofvenor Place, March 30. 1792.. 
ART of my promife has been accomplifhed in a former 
letter, in which I gave you the fulleft account I could of 
the fprings of boiling water that rife in the valley of Rykum. 
It now remains for me to fend you a defcription of thofe we: 
vilited in the neighbourhood of Haukadal. 
TueEse laft are the moft remarkable in the ifland, and the 
eruptions of water from fome of them fo aftonifhing, that I 
doubt whether any adequate idea of their effe&t can be given 
by defcription. Abler pens than mine might fail probably in 
attempting to do juftice to fuch wonderful phenomena. The: 
objects, however, are fo highly interefting in themfelves, that 
even the fimpleft narrative that can be given of them will be 
read with more than ordinary attention. 
Tuey are fituated about fix and thirty miles from Mount: 
Heckla, and about twelve miles, in a north-eaft direction, from. 
the village of Skalholt*. The road from thence to the {prings: 
is 
* Skalholt confifts of the Cathedral, a large building of wood, and of a very few. 
houfes belonging to the Bifhop and his dependants. The Bifhops of the fouthern divi- 
fion 
