AN ICELANDIC DINNEK. 
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in as great disarray as reappear the vestiges of a 
country that has been disfigured by some deluge. If 
I give you anything like a connected account of what 
passed you must thank Sigurdr’s more solid tempera¬ 
ment ; for the Doctor looked quite foolish when I asked 
him—tried to feel my pulse—could not find it—and 
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then wrote the following prescription, which I believe 
to be nothing more than an invoice of the number of 
bottles he himself disposed of.^ 
I gather, then, from evidence—internal and other¬ 
wise—that the dinner was excellent, and that we were 
helped in Benjamite proportions; but as before the 
soup was finished I was already hard at work hob- 
* Copy of Dr. E.’s prescription 
R 
vin: claret: 
iii btls. 
vin: champ: 
iv btls. 
vin: sherr: 
f btl. 
vin: Rheni: 
ii btls. 
aqna vitae 
viii gls. 
trigint: poc: segrot: cap : quotid : 
Reik: die Martis, 
Junii 27. 
C. E. E. 
