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HAVNFIORD. 
gave their assistance at the fishery, as a compen¬ 
sation for their trouble. 
Wednesday, At six o’clock this morning Mr. 
July Phelps an d l se t 0 ff f or the purpose 
of visiting the sulphur-springs of Kreisevig, 
which are about a day’s journey distant from 
Reikevig. The first nine miles brought us to 
the house of Mr. Sivertsen, at Havnfiord, at 
which place, the great bed of lava, called Garde - 
hraun, forms a range of cliffs to the sea, close 
by whose margin masses of lava of vast size are 
dispersed in such a manner, that a stranger would 
conceive the passing of them to be scarcely prac¬ 
ticable. In other places we were obliged to fol¬ 
low a very devious course, to avoid great holes, 
of the shape of inverted cones, which had every 
appearance of being the craters of volcanoes, that 
had been long since extinguished. Havnfiord 
contains only two or three merchants’ houses 
and their factories, together with a few peasants’ 
huts scattered about on the small patches of 
grass that are here and there met with among 
the Hraun , from which, indeed, they are not 
easily distinguishable ; the smaller pieces of that 
substance composing the walls of the cottages, 
whose turf roofs only differ from the grassy 
patches in their superior verdure. A consider¬ 
able quantity of fish is cured at this place, both 
