17 Tiie view from near the church was very beautiful. It extended toward the fouth along the plain into an open country. On the other fide, it was bounded by hills, which had not the barren and rugged appearance that deform almoft every fcene in this divifion of the ifiand. It was, however, ftill finer from fome of the eminences near the fprings. The plain and the fur- rounding mountains, feen from a height, appeared to more advantage; and the eruptions from the great wells breaking from time to time, the general ftillnefs that prevailed, were much more diftinft. The courfe of the river winding under the eye, could be traced with greater accuracy. It flows through the plain into an open country, where, being increafed by the wa- ters of numerous ftreams and rivulets, it bends to the weftward, and near Skalholt falls into a confiderable river, the Huit-aa. The pleafant and fertile paftures near its banks were enlivened by numerous herds of cattle and fheep, the united riches of three or four farmers in the neighbour- hood of Haukadal. The mowers alfo at work in the different fields furrounding each houfe, gave, at this feafon, additional beauty to the profpeft. High hills to the weftward were feparated from the eminencies

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