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might have gathered, would necessarily have been 
destroyed, and I therefore returned to the tents, 
whence Jacob and myself took our horses to call 
upon the priest of Thingevalle, for the purpose of 
making some acknowledgment for the kindness 
he had shown us. Near his house I was much 
struck with the venerable figure of a native, who 
was employed in cutting the twigs of birch into 
small pieces, for burning into charcoal. His long 
beard and the singularity of his dress, gave him 
very much the appearance of the Icelander re¬ 
presented in the ancient costume of his country* 
in the third plate of the Atlas of the Voyage en 
Islande . His jacket was ornamented with a coarse 
sort of lacing, and his little hemispherical cap, 
fitting close to his head, was precisely the same as 
hills: all of them, probably, proceeded from one erup- 
tion, though in different streams. The lesser height and 
“ oblique position of the eastern mass, and, indeed, the 
chasm itself, it may be conjectured, were caused by some 
ef under stratum having given way, and the consequent sink* 
(f ing of all above it, as the figure will better explain.” 
SURFACE OF FA 
STRATUM SUNK 
