REIKEVIG. 
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more common grasses, and Festuca vivipara . 
Late in the evening I returned to Reikevig, and 
slept for the last time on board the Margaret and 
Anne. 
Thursday, This day was exceedingly cold and 
June 22 ' we t, and in the early part of it there 
was so thick a fog, that we could not see the town 
from our vessel. As soon as we had breakfasted, 
my luggage was conveyed on shore, and placed 
in Mr. Savigniac’s house, where it was proposed, 
that, while we continued together, we should all 
meet at our meals; and where, with the addition 
of our ship-provisions to the good Icelandic mut¬ 
ton, fish, and scurvy-grass (Rumex acetosa and 
digynus), we fared exceedingly well. I had this 
morning a favorable opportunity of looking at the 
town, which consists of about sixty or seventy 
houses, standing in two rows, of nearly equal 
length, at right angles with one another, so as 
to form the annexed figure, supposing 
__ W ' the base of it to front the sea, and the 
N * upper part to run into the country. 
Those houses next the bay I have before men¬ 
tioned, as being all built of wood: they face 
the north, and look at a little distance not unlike 
a number of granaries. The merchants’ houses 
are built exactly like the warehouses; that is to 
say, of wooden planks, covered with the same 
