fS ICELAND. 



Antiquities.. ..In Iceland are found circles of upright stones, and 

 stones laid on each other, in a manner similar, though on a smaller 

 scale, to Stonehenge in England. They are there called domrings^ or 

 circles of judgment. There likewise still exists a bath built by Snor- 

 ro, the celebrated Icelandic historian, in the thirteenth century. 



History. ...A Norwegian colony under the conduct of two chiefs; 

 named Ingulfr and Leifr, settled in Iceland in the ninth century. Other 

 colonies soon followed, consisting principally of emigrants who fled 

 from the tyranny of Harold Harfagre, king of Norway. These formed 

 separate independenr communities which, in time, united into one 

 commonwealth under a supreme elective magistrate. In consequence, 

 however, of internal dissensions, and the arbitrary conduct of some 

 ambitious citizens, the Icelandic republic in the year 1264 submitted, 

 under certain conditions, to Hakan king of Norway ; and afterwards 

 became, with that country, a part of the dominions of the crown of 

 Denmark, to which it still remains subject. 



THE FARO OR FERRO ISLANDS, 



So called from their lying in a cluster, and the inhabitants ferrying 

 from one island to another. They are about 25 in number, though only 

 17 are said to be inhabited, and lie between 61 and 63 deg N. lat. and 

 6 and 7 deg. W. long, from London. The space of this cluster extends 

 about 70 miles in length and 40 in breadth, 300 miles to the westward 

 of Norway; having Shetland and the Orkneys on the south-east, and 

 Greenland and Iceland upon the north and north-west. Strome, the 

 largest island of this group, is twenty-four miles long and eight broad. 

 The trade and income of the inhabitants, who may be about 4000 of 

 5000, add little or nothing to the revenues of Denmark. 



