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in his church. How happy should I have been 
to have had the opportunity of showing to my 
countrymen, on my return, the numerous pub¬ 
lications, principally historical, for which I was 
indebted to the liberality of this learned and 
noble author; but, though unfortunately deprived 
of this satisfaction, I record, with infinite plea¬ 
sure, my obligations to him, not only for these, 
but for various other books which I could not 
elsewhere have procured. Two of the works that 
have come from the pen of the Tatsroed deserve 
particular mention: the titles, indeed, have al¬ 
together escaped my memory, but, if I am not 
mistaken, one of them was written in the Danish, 
the other in the Icelandic language, and both 
treated of the most remarkable occurrences that 
had taken place in the later history of the coun¬ 
try, among which it was peculiarly gratifying to 
an Englishman to see how earnestly and how 
completely con amove the author bears testimony 
to the noble and generous conduct of Sir Joseph 
Banks, impressing, in the strongest terms, upon 
the minds of his countrymen a sense of the ob¬ 
ligations they owe to him for the unexampled 
assistance which he afforded to such Icelanders, 
as had, in the beginning of the present war, been 
made prisoners in Danish vessels; striving with 
the utmost zeal to procure their release, and 
supplying, with unbounded liberality, their pe~ 
