HEIDERBAG. 
7 8 
Bartsia alpina, Geranium sylvaticum , and Co- 
nostomum bore ale. When we had reached about 
half way of our day’s journey, we stopped half an 
hour to bait our horses, and arrived at Heiderbag, 
where we proposed to remain the night, between 
ten and eleven o’clock. The priest Egclosen, at 
whose I called to deliver a letter from the Stiffs- 
amptman , rose from bed, and assisted us to fix 
our tents, and unload the horses; but the heavy 
rain had wetted almost every thing, so that we 
passed but an uncomfortable night, lying in our 
damp clothes, and on the moist and swampy 
ground, where our tents were pitched. 
Sunday, Early this morning, the priest came 
July 9 ' to invite us to breakfast at his house, 
which I readily agreed to, taking with me tea, 
coffee, and other provisions ; a precaution ab¬ 
solutely necessary, for his house would afford 
nothing but milk, skiur, butter, and fish. I 
was even obliged to send back to my tent for 
a kettle to boil the coffee in. The only part of 
the house to which we were admitted was that 
in which the fish, tallow, wool, milk, &c., were 
kept, for this being the best part of an Icelandic 
building, is used for the reception of strangers. 
It had walls of alternate layers of turf and stone, 
without either cement to unite them, or plaister 
to conceal their nakedness, and the floor was the 
bare earth. One chair was all our host could 
