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chests of drawers, on which were displayed such 
articles of use as approached the nearest to 
China: some of them, I believe, really were so. 
Two closet doors were also opened, and ex 
hibited a considerable quantity of excellent sil¬ 
ver plate. Two large and old-fashioned mirrors 
occupied the space between the windows, and 
beneath them were marble slabs, placed upon 
gilded feet; but they were broken, and lay com¬ 
pletely out of a horizontal direction. About 
sixty prints and drawings, some of them in 
frames, and a few glazed, concealed in some 
measure the nakedness of the walls: they were, 
it must be confessed, for the most part, of a 
very ordinary stamp; but, as many of them 
were portraits of the Stiftsamptman s friends, 
or prints of the sovereigns, and other great men 
of Denmark, they had their value, and their 
names and titles were detailed to us with much 
satisfaction. It might truly be said to be the 
best collection of prints and pictures in the 
country. When we sat down to table, a little 
interruption was caused by the breaking down 
of the chair upon which his Excellency had 
seated himself; but this was soon settled, as there 
fortunately was still a vacant one in the room 
to replace it. The arranging of a dinner-table 
is attended in Iceland with little trouble, and 
would afford no scope for the display of the 
