33 THE SACRED HILL OF LAWS. “ Where two foes each other meeting Would exchange a friendly greeting ; Where a man, intent on spoil, Would stop short ’shamed of approaching As if fearful of encroaching On a consecrated soil.” A long day’s ride brought us within sight of the Logberg or Law-hill, one of the places we had especially come from England to visit. The surroundings have many attractions to the naturalist and man of science; the botanist, geologist, ornithologist, and angler may all find “ a happy hunting ground,” but to those who, like ourselves, had some slight knowledge of its historical association with Iceland’s past and its stirring memories, it had a special interest, for this was the rendezvous of all the characters connected with the chief Sagas, and it was from its sacred summit that justice was administered for nearly ten long centuries. One author says of this place:—“ A lovelier scene I have seldom witnessed. In the foreground lay huge masses of rock and lava tossed about like the ruins of a world, and washed by waters as bright and green as polished malachite. Beyond, a group of distant mountains, robed by the transparent atmosphere in tints unknown to Europe, peeped over each other’s shoulders into the silver mirror at their feet; while here and there, from among their purple ridges, columns of white vapour rise like altar smoke toward the tranquil heaven.” But as we drew up our ponies and gazed for the first time on the scene through a fierce rain, the description of Mackenzie seemed far more appro- priate. He tells us it is a spot of singular wildness and desolation ; on every side of which appear the most tremendous effects of ancient convulsions and disorder, whilst nature now sleeps in a death-like silence amid the horrors she has formed.” And certainly one could not imagino a place more fitted for a court of justice to be held in the open air. The scenery is of the wildest,

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