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the Tatsroed and chief justice of the island, and 
visit the district of Borgafiord where he resides; 
but, as the care of my herbarium and the arrang¬ 
ing of the other collections made in my late ex¬ 
cursion, required two or three days, I was unable 
to set out before the following Friday, when the 
Stiftsamptman again insisted upon supplying me 
with horses, tents, &c. Independently, indeed, 
of the preservation of my collections, I had also 
other motives for thus delaying my journey to 
Borgafiord: one of them was my wish to be 
present at the great salmon-fishery, at a river 
not far from this town, which was to take place 
on the twenty-fifth of this month, and another 
was my desire to visit the sulphur-springs of 
Kreisevig , which Count Tramp had obligingly 
recommended to my attention, as being amongst 
the greatest curiosities that the island affords. 
Sunday, We had been now so long in anxious 
July 23. eX p ec {- a £j on G f the arrival of the Flora, 
another merchant-vessel belonging to Mr. Phelps, 
which was to sail almost immediately after us, 
that we began to fear lest some accident should 
have happened to her on the passage; and I 
felt myself particularly uneasy on the subject, 
as I had considerable reason to expect by her 
my friend, Mr. Borrer, in whose company I 
had found such pleasure the preceding year* 
