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ornamented with carved lines, and painted green. 
The windows, of which there is a double row, 
are well made, and glazed, and are not in the 
roof of the building, as in most other Icelandic 
houses, but in the wall. There are several out¬ 
houses for cattle, for provisions, implements of 
husbandry, drying fish, &c., all which stand apart 
from the dwelling-house, and are built with 
equal neatness, and wholly of turf, except the 
fish-house, which is of wood, formed in such a 
manner, that a free passage is left to the air at 
the same time that the inside is protected from 
the rain. At no great distance, also, stood the 
church, a small and neat, though ancient, edi¬ 
fice; and not far from this cluster of buildings 
rose the steep and rocky front of Akra-fiel, form¬ 
ing a singular contrast with the green plain of 
Inderholme. 
Wednesday, Immediately after breakfast the 
August 2. TaLtsi-oed, his son a young man of 
eighteen years of age, and myself, set off for 
Hvamore, about twenty miles distance, the resi¬ 
dence of the Amptman Stephensen, brother to the 
Tatsroed, and we thence proposed continuing 
“ contigua, ad ignis periculum vitandum: fortasse etiam 
€e penuaria quaedam quae solitaria auram et siccantes 
rf ventos melius imbiberent.” De regno Danice et Norvegios 
Tractatus, p. 411 — 413 . 
