132 GUIDE TO ICELAND. extensive tracts of lava in the interior, in a direct line with the peninsula eastward to Askja, seem to point to the existence of a volcanic channel running due west from that great central ‘ Plutonic ’ outlet. (See Geological Description of Iceland, Chapter II.) Twenty-eieth Day.—Hitardalr to Reykholt. An hour’s ride down the valley will bring the party to Staz&arTiraun, and thence they will proceed to Reykholt by the same route as was travelled going westward. It would not be a bad plan, if any of the travellers have rods with them, to halt at Stafholt and have two or three days’ fishing before going on to Reykholt, that the ponies may recruit. We will therefore allow two days. The party can return from here to Reykjavik in three days. See Eoute IV. Twenty-eighth Day. — Reykholt to Kalmamtunga (Kalman’s- tongue). Before quitting the Reykholtsdalr, a tent should be borrowed from the pastor or one of the farmers, and an additional man and ponies to transport it to and from the Arna/rvatnshei^i (Eagle-lake-heath), where it would be advisable to camp out the second night after leaving Reykholt. It is seventeen hours’ journey, with pack-ponies, from Kalmamtunga to Ilaukagil, the first farm on the east side of the elevated plateau that has to be crossed, and there is no farm on the way. A hut built as a hospice stands on the heath near the largest of the lakes, the Arnarvatn; but a recent, and not over-fastidious, traveller says he found its interior in such a filthy state that it1 forbade intrusion.’ If a tent is not procurable, this hut might be cleaned out, and the travellers in their ‘ Garnets ’ and box-beds will surely be able to tolerate one night there. This is the only occasion when a tent is really needed between Reykjavik and Akureyri by this route. A few days can be agreeably spent among the Pish-lakes on the Arnarvatnshei^i (See Chapter III.). There is no farm nearer than KalmamUinga. The author was told by a party of Cambridge men, who encamped near the lakes last summer (1881), that they caught as many as seventy large trout in a day. At Kalmansthnga the accommodation is very poor, and the farmer is said to be extortionate; but those who complain at his charges should remember that the coffee, sugar, meal for the bread, and every article of food not produced on the farm, has to be brought a two to three (=to four and six, going and returning) days’ journey from the nearest trading-station. ■ The farm is situated in the midst of rich grass land, surrounded by surpassingly grand Alpine scenery. Twenty-ninth Day. — Kalmamtunga to the Arnarvatnshei^&i ;

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