100 GUIDE TO ICELAND. rounded by hills. Here a halt will he made to bait the ponies, partake of lunch, and shift saddles. It is remarkable that there is no farm here, for many a one may he seen elsewhere surrounded with far less pasture. Kemounting, a short gallop will bring the party to the fertile Laugardalr (Hot-spring-dale), a valley containing many hot springs, and an extensive lake. As the path runs within a short distance of the north-western comer of the Laugarvatn (Hot-spring-lake), travellers usually dismount to visit a group of hot springs which bubble forth merrily within a foot or so of the water’s edge. An efflorescence of alum and a little sulphur will be found around the springs. The large columns of steam ascending from the midst of an extensive marsh on the opposite side of the lake mark the sites of other groups of hot springs, but these are seldom visited, as a lengthy detour would have to be made, and a number of similar ones are to be seen in the vicinity of the Geysir. A cup of coffee and excellent pancakes are procurable at the farm near the lake, if the travellers wish to halt for refreshments. Two hours’ ride, fair path, passing through a tract of birch and willow scrub (in which a covey or two of grouse may generally be found in August) near Mi’Sdalr (Mid-dale) church, will bring the travellers to the famous Bruara (Bridge-river), so named from a peculiar bridge here, which is situated in the river, not bridging it over. At the spot where the bridge is placed, the river in summer is usually sixty or seventy yards in width and of no great depth, save in mid-channel; but both width and depth vary according to the season of the year and the state of the weather. The river- bed is a rugged tract of lava, in the centre of which is a deep wedge- shaped crevasse extending up stream from an equally deep pool, lying some feet below the level of the river-bed above, into which the water falls. The river abounding in deep holes above the crevasse, while it is but a foot or so deep between it and the banks, except when flooded, some eight or nine stout planks have been placed across the chasm, with strong iron-clamped hand-rails on each side, and form a somewhat singular bridge, twelve feet by eight. It is, however, only possible to cross by this when the river is in its normal condition, as during the floods the planks of the bridge are several feet beneath a foaming cataract, and travellers have to cross in a boat at the ferry a short distance down stream. An hour and a half’s ride will bring the party to Muli, two hours’ to the Geysir or Haulcadalr farm. Accommodation for two travellers at Muli, for several at Haulcadalr. The people at both places are

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