EXCURSION TO EIDE. 23 front.* The whole, taken in connection with the similar, though less elevated cliffs all around the Faroes, may be said to form a splendid illustration of what the sea can do in cutting down hills and strewing out the removed materials. Returning to Eide, and having to wait there a while, that our men might rest, I took the opportunity of examining the neigh- bourhood. The place is a low isthmus between the sound and the outer ocean, and here there are some small fields under culti- vation. Every here and there the rocks are presented on the surface, where they invariably are rounded or flattened, with peculiar deep channelings, precisely like those rocks which are now generally believed to have been abraded by ice. My atten- tion being arrested by these features, I looked narrowly for the strise or scratches which ice generally leaves on surfaces over which it has passed. They presented themselves in abundance in several places—most strikingly of all within sea-mark on the shore of the quiet bay—being all directed from the north, which is also the direction of the canaux or channelings, and further, of the passage or isthmus in which the village lies. It was curious to reflect that these minute features should still be preserved on a surface which has since been subjected to so long a period of oceanic attrition as is indicated by the cliffs of the Kodlen and Myling. By ten o’clock in the evening, we were once more on board the Thor, where we learned that our amateur photographer had had a great day in Thorshavn, assembling round him all the remarkable- looking persons of both sexes, and exciting their infinite surprise by the fidelity of his portraitures. His greatest difficulty had been to keep his sitters from coming in their finest Sunday-attire, instead of the picturesque habiliments they were accustomed to wear. The captain had been employing the time in taking in a supply of coal to speed us on our wray to Iceland. One of the * In a Narrative of the Cruise of the Yacht Maria among the Faroe Islands in the Summer of 1854 (a beautifully illustrated and very pleasantly written volume, published by Longman, 1855), it is stated that the Myling, by aneroid barometer, is 2100 feet high. The remarkable stacks near that cliff are, in the same volume, said to be 800 feet high, and are described as bearing the appearance of having fallen away from the adjacent precipice. This book may be recommended to all who wish to get a correct representation of Fardese scenery.

(1) Front Board
(2) Front Board
(3) Front Flyleaf
(4) Front Flyleaf
(5) Illustration
(6) Illustration
(7) Page [1]
(8) Page [2]
(9) Page [3]
(10) Page [4]
(11) Page 1
(12) Page 2
(13) Page 3
(14) Page 4
(15) Page 5
(16) Page 6
(17) Page 7
(18) Page 8
(19) Page 9
(20) Page 10
(21) Page 11
(22) Page 12
(23) Page 13
(24) Page 14
(25) Page 15
(26) Page 16
(27) Page 17
(28) Page 18
(29) Page 19
(30) Page 20
(31) Page 21
(32) Page 22
(33) Page 23
(34) Page 24
(35) Page 25
(36) Page 26
(37) Page 27
(38) Page 28
(39) Page 29
(40) Page 30
(41) Page 31
(42) Page 32
(43) Page 33
(44) Page 34
(45) Page 35
(46) Page 36
(47) Page 37
(48) Page 38
(49) Page 39
(50) Page 40
(51) Page 41
(52) Page 42
(53) Page 43
(54) Page 44
(55) Page 45
(56) Page 46
(57) Page 47
(58) Page 48
(59) Page 49
(60) Page 50
(61) Page 51
(62) Page 52
(63) Page 53
(64) Page 54
(65) Page 55
(66) Page 56
(67) Page 57
(68) Page 58
(69) Page 59
(70) Page 60
(71) Page 61
(72) Page 62
(73) Page 63
(74) Page 64
(75) Page 65
(76) Page 66
(77) Page 67
(78) Page 68
(79) Page 69
(80) Page 70
(81) Page 71
(82) Page 72
(83) Page 73
(84) Page 74
(85) Page 75
(86) Page 76
(87) Page 77
(88) Page 78
(89) Page 79
(90) Page 80
(91) Page 81
(92) Page 82
(93) Page 83
(94) Page 84
(95) Page 85
(96) Page 86
(97) Rear Flyleaf
(98) Rear Flyleaf
(99) Rear Board
(100) Rear Board
(101) Spine
(102) Fore Edge
(103) Scale
(104) Color Palette