IgO RETURN FROM THE GEYSERS. 
to possess it nearly in as great a degree. After 
conducting us into a beaten track, at about three 
Friday, o’clock in the morning of the following 
July 21 * day, our attentive guide left us, and with 
equal haste set off on his return to Heiderbag, in 
order that he might reach the place in time to go 
through his whole day’s work of hay-cutting. 
The mist now began to clear away, and I saw at 
but little distance before me the chasm at the foot 
of the mountain, Skoul-a-fiel. I alighted from 
my horse and walked along a steep descent to 
the edge of the precipice, whence I looked 
directly down into an opening of the ground, 
which, at the same time that it appeared nearly 
as deep and quite as terrific as that of Alrnan- 
negiaa, was more remarkable, from having in 
the centre, between the two precipices, a per¬ 
pendicular column of rock, in height nearly 
equalling the place on which I stood, and sur¬ 
rounded, excepting a small portion, by the waters 
of a torrent that flowed with great rapidity along 
the bottom of the chasm. There was no way by 
which I could arrive at the stream without going 
a very circuitous route, and I therefore thought 
it better to hasten to Reikevig, and, if the time 
allowed me before the sailing of the vessel would 
permit, to return and bestow a day upon the in¬ 
vestigation of this place and the neighbouring 
