REIKEVIG. 
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the country I here walked over, to any thing or 
place I know, which it so much resembles, as the 
summit of Ben Nevis; for, with the exception of 
here and there a few patches of verdure, the 
whole was a mass of broken pieces of rock, not 
piled up in heaps, but forming a great plain, or, 
at most, only rising in a few hills of a gentle and 
gradual ascent. Nearer the sea, some of these 
pieces of rock were covered with a little earth and 
grass, and in other places the interstices were 
frequently filled with Trichostomum canescens , 
among which grew many alpine plants, which 
high; and a smaller transverse bar, crossing this at the top, 
and turning on its centre : from this horizontal bar, hangs 
down at each extremity, a longer piece of wood, in such a 
manner as to form three sides of an oblong square. The 
annexed sketch conveys a sufficiently accurate idea of the 
whole. Two or three or more of these are placed near 
every fishing house, so that, when the inhabitants return 
from fishing, with their wet dresses, they suspend them, by 
fitting them on the upper part of these machines, which 
turn about with the wind, in such a way that a current 
of air always passes through them. 
