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in the neighbourhood from which they could 
have rolled; nor could I find any cavities near 
the place on which they stood, that would ren¬ 
der it probable they were thrown up by an earth¬ 
quake ; neither do they appear, just in that spot, 
to have undergone the operation of fire, although 
some rocks, close by, have evidently been in a 
state of fusion. On the shore, in several places 
near the town, are many rudely-formed basaltic 
columns, standing close together, in a perpen¬ 
dicular direction, some from one to two and three 
feet in diameter; they are obscurely angular, 
and, on the top, are generally either concave or 
convex. They appeared to me exactly of the 
same nature as those of Stafia, and are found, 
also, on many of the islands near Reikevig. 
Being anxious to visit the boiling spring, about 
two miles and a half to the eastward of Reikevig, 
the steam from which was pointed out to me 
from a little eminence near the town, I set out 
about one o’clock for that purpose. But, after 
getting enveloped in a labyrinth of bogs during 
a heavy rain, I was obliged to return without 
being able to reach it, and with but a few plants, 
which I did not find the preceding day. This, 
however, was not to be wondered at, since the 
most part of the tract I went over was either 
barren rock, or a morass, where the grasses 
