VI. An Account of the Hot Springs near Haukadal in Ice- 

 land: In a fecond Letter to Dr Black from John Thomas 

 Stanlet, Efp M. P. F, S. A. A. Lond. and F. R. S. Edin. 



[Read April 30. 1792.] 



Dear Sir, Grofvenor Place, March 30. 1792.. 



PART of my promife has been accomplimed 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 

 viiited in the neighbourhood of Haukadal. 



These 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 effect 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 interesting in themfelves, that 

 even the fimpleft narrative that can be given of them will be 

 read with more than ordinary attention. 



They 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 fprings 



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- 

 sion 



