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the day in making such sketches of the most re¬ 
markable of the scenery as the weather would 
allow, I resolved to leave my guide, with orders 
to follow me as soon as the tents and luggage 
were sufficiently dry, and to depart myself with 
Jacob, at six o’clock in the evening, for Rei- 
kevig. The margin of Thingevalle-vatn fortu¬ 
nately served us as a guide to Heiderbag; for, 
otherwise, the excessive fogginess of the atmos¬ 
phere would have prevented us from reaching 
the house of the pastor Egclosen, where it was 
necessary for us to procure a conductor for the 
following part of our journey. Indeed, as often 
as our leaving the shore and losing the track 
induced the necessity of Jacob’s being separated 
from me in order to recover it, it was only by 
shouting to, and answering one another, that we 
were enabled again to join company. At nine 
o’clock we arrived at the door of the worthy 
priest, whom we found seated in the fish-house, 
nursing his infant child, and at the same time 
employed in preparing his discourse for the fol¬ 
lowing sabbath. A man, who was engaged stow¬ 
ing some fish and wool, in the same building, 
offered to accompany us on our way, and the 
priest immediately sent him in search of his horse, 
which was grazing on the morass. The rain and 
fog had by this time so increased, that we gladly 
took shelter and such refreshment as our host 
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