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KREISEVIG. 
pendage£. It is a frequent custom with Ice¬ 
landers, whose dwellings are in the vicinity of a 
church, to receive their guests in it, as affording 
a more spacious and convenient apartment than 
any of their own; and such was the case even 
here, though in this edifice, except the light ad¬ 
mitted by a small door, a little aperture in the 
wall above the altar about six or eight inches 
square, was all that answered the purpose of a 
window. Here, however, we were regaled with 
some excellent sheep’s milk, and, having urged 
our request to our host that he would accompany 
us to the sulphur-springs, we, after a short rest, 
again Vnounted our horses. Although in the vici¬ 
nity of a remedy so noted for the cure of a certain 
disagreeable cutaneous complaint, we observed, 
by the swellings on the hands of our Kreisevig 
guide, and by his incessant scratching, that 
he had not, any more than some other people 
whom we saw living near the sulphur-springs, 
made such use of it as would be done in other 
countries; but, on the contrary, it rather ap¬ 
peared that the disorder was here more than 
usually prevalent. The first place to which he 
led us was a spot about two miles from the vil¬ 
lage, where a thick and muddy water was boiling 
up from a number of small orifices, occupying a 
hillock, of some yards in extent, but composed 
