106 GUIDE TO ICELAND. frosted craggy roof until it fades away in the depths, where the water imperceptibly loses its crystalline appearance and becomes of a beautiful pale cobalt tint. Were it not for the wreaths of steam that curl from the surface of the water, where exposed, one could fancy he was gazing into the beautiful cool depths of a grotto amid the rocks of some sheltered bay, into which were he to plunge and its mystic chambers explore, he feels, so fairy-like is its appearance, that if a mermaid or a sea-nymph exists, it is therein he would find her. A couple. of hours can be pleasantly spent examining the numerous hot springs and miniature geysirs south of Strokkr, and studying ‘the seven forms of Geysir life.’ The ‘Little Strokkr’ of the older travellers, in the centre of the ‘ dwarf plain,’ has long ceased to spout, having degenerated into a simple laug, or a hot spring in which the water merely bubbles forth. The ‘ Little Geysir,’ a gusher situated a short distance south of Stroller, that has a tube about two feet in diameter and thirteen feet in depth to where it branches off laterally, occasionally spouts to the height of ten or twelve feet. There' are also, Burton asserts, a ‘ gusherling ’ which discharges reel-water, and another which ‘ spouts like an escape pipe, brown, high and strong.’ An ascent of the Laugafjall will well repay the trouble, for ‘ up on the hill-side are springs which do not boil and spout now; and still higher old tubes and crater-cones that once were the outlets of Geysirs of considerable size; ’ and a charming view is obtainable over the Alpine country to the south. Hekla with its mantle of snow is distinctly visible beyond the range of hills on the opposite side of the Hv'da ; as also are the more distant ice-clad summits of the Joklar near the south coast. When one turns his attention from the extreme distance to the foreground of this peculiar landscape, what a contrast! There, ‘ in icy pomp the glaciers tower ’ and a volcano sleepeth mantled in snow; here, in heated domes of ruddy clay and mounds of rock are embosomed Geysirs and wells of boiling water from which rise clouds of steam ; speaking of the subterranean fires slumbering below, which every few years awaken and send fiery floods of molten rock coursing over this strange volcanic isle. Fifth Dat.— Geysir to Hruni, Skalholt or IIrepphilar, visiting en route the Gullfoss. Should the party have been so fortunate as to have witnessed an eruption of the Geysir during their first day’s sojourn at its site, or it be decided not to await one, a start will be made this morning in the direction of Helcla. If the party be a

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