244, REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S8., ETC., 
into the morning, only ceasing for brief intervals, we 
started at 10.20 on the 12th July, for a day’s journey, which 
led us through another Icelandic forest of dwarf birch and 
willow, consisting of trees rather taller than those passed 
yesterday. We crossed the Bruara river, with its rapids 
foaming down one chasm above and another below the 
wooden bridge over which we passed. At 2.10 we took 
a little refreshment at a farm hard by another church, 
and left about 3.10, arriving at Muli, a farm 4 miles from the 
Geysir, at 4.15, and then, after unpacking our provisions and 
obtaining a good meal, we started for the Geysir and Strokkr, 
although drenching showers continued at intervals. One of 
the smaller basins (the little Geysir, I believe) erupted a 
fountain of boiling water, ranging from 2 to 10 or 12 feet for 
several minutes continuously. Other natural cavities held 
water bubbling, surging, and moaning, as though in constant 
struggle to escape. <A strong sulphureous smell pervaded 
the vicinity, and there were red pits and steep banks of 
thoroughly baked soil. Around the edge of the basin of the 
great Geysir was a deposit of sinter which, as continually 
receiving accessions at each overflow, is ever augmenting 
the heap. The flowers that I noticed as flourishing in 
closest proximity to the boiling springs are Parnassia palus- 
tris, Armenia maritima, and especially Thymus serpyllum. 
Geometride and Crambide were very abundant again this 
evening, but damaged in the catching ; the vegetation was in 
such a soaking condition. The farmer to whom the ground 
surrounding the Geysirs belongs told us that the great 
Geysir would probably go off in the night; but we dis- 
credited his statement, considering it only a device to get us 
to lodge at his farm, and so we returned to Muli, 
Two very widely distributed, and, I may add, representa- 
tive flowers of Iceland, buttercups and the blossoms of 
Matricaria inodora, which closely resemble an oxeye daisy, 
were sewed up in the mouth of the trout we had for break- 
fast. Next morning we started a second time for Geysir, and 
heard from a farmer, whom we met riding along the valley 
that skirts the base of the Geysir and Strokkr hill, that 
Geysir had gone off at 5 A.M. to the height of 200 feet. 
Whether he or anyone else was there at the time to see it go 
off, and could positively testify that it reached that height, 
is another matter, but that it had gone off recently I feel 
convinced, as, on arrival, I noticed the slope still streaming 
with fluid, containmg thick deposit, as though sundry milk 
pails had been overturned. The inky-black and deep cobalt- 
