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shores of Reikevig, and I here learned that the 
vessel, which we had observed the evening before 
entering the Bay, was the Talbot sloop of war, 
commanded by the Honorable Alexander Jones. 
She had for some little time been cruising off Ice- 
land, in the course of which she had made a land¬ 
ing on the south coast, and had entered the bay of 
Havnfiord. From this place the captain had pro¬ 
ceeded without loss of time to Reikevig harbor, 
that he might have an opportunity of ascertaining 
more correctly the facts connected with a revolu¬ 
tion in the government, of which he had heard at 
the former place, but had received only a short and 
unsatisfactory account. The consequence of these 
enquiries was his issuing orders, that the persons, 
principally concerned in bringing about this 
change of affairs, should with all possible ex¬ 
pedition proceed to England, where a full account 
of all the transactions was to be laid before the 
British government. From this time, therefore, 
iny researches to Iceland may be regarded as nearly 
at an end; and, though various circumstances pre¬ 
vented the sailing of our vessel until the twenty- 
fifth of August, yet the daily, and sometimes 
hourly, expectation of being called on board, pre¬ 
vented my making any excursion to a distance 
from Reikevig. Much of this time was spent in 
short, but, from the general barrenness of the 
soil, usually unproductive botanical walks in 
