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lay in our route, and afforded pasture for the 
horses, besides offering to myself the opportunity 
I wished of devoting the whole of the next day to 
the examining of the hill and its neighbouring 
chasm. The fineness of the morning afforded me 
great pleasure, and, as the wind had veered to the 
north, I looked forward to a few days of bright 
and dry weather. Horses and guides having been 
furnished me on the preceding day by the Stifts- 
amptman, I sent them forward in the early part 
of the morning with the baggage and a week’s 
provisions of ship’s stores, giving them directions 
where they should pitch the tents in case they 
arrived at the journey’s end before we should 
reach them. Mr. Phelps, by kindly permitting 
Jacob to accompany me a second time, conferred 
an essential service, as the fidelity and honesty as 
well as the good sense of this man rendered him 
an useful servant, and often an amusing com¬ 
panion. The various climates he had visited, 
and the hardships he had suffered, from his ear¬ 
liest youth, enabled him to endure alike heat 
and cold, and to bear the greatest fatigue with¬ 
out ever uttering a single complaint. In his 
broken English he would frequently relieve the 
wearisomeness which attended travelling over the 
long and dreary moors of Iceland, by relating the 
adventures that he had met with in his many 
voyages and travels, particularly in a journey that 
