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Kreisevig, where this mineral is produced in con¬ 
siderable quantity. We were the more vexed at 
being obliged to return, because the incessant rain 
prevented our bringing away any sketch of a spot, 
of which words can give but a very inadequate 
idea,, and which is in itself alone a sufficient re¬ 
compense to a mind even the most incurious, 
for the fatigues and privations necessarily attend¬ 
ant upon the travelling about Iceland. On our 
return to Havnfiord, by the same route as we 
went in the morning, nothing peculiarly interest¬ 
ing occurred, except that I met with Parmelia 
sarmentosa on the rocks of lava in some abund¬ 
ance. A little after midnight, wet and weary, we 
reached Mr. Sivertsen’s house, and on the follow- 
Friday, morning returned to Reikevig, with 
July 2s. Qur | lorses no j ess exhausted than our¬ 
selves, and mine so lamed by the beds of Hraun, 
that I was never after able to make use of him. 
Saturday, Having been informed that when tra- 
July ~ 9 ‘ veiling, as I purposed to do, loaded with 
much luggage and tents, it would require three 
days before we could reach the house of the 
Tatsroed, at Inderholme, in the district of Borga- 
fiord, and that a portion of this time must be 
allowed for the horses to rest, I thought it best to 
make the present day’s journey extend no further 
than the foot of the mountain Skoul-a-fiel, which 
