134 GUIDE TO ICELAND. ponies; and, as before observed, sportsmen can pass the time very satisfactorily here. Swans are at times very numerous on the lakes. A Burthon boat sent by steamer to Styklcishdlmr, and brought up here, would enable a party of anglers to make such a catch of trout as is seldom heard of in these days. Thirtieth: Day.—Arnarvatn to Haukagil (Hawk-gill). That is, if a stay is not made for fishing and shooting. Send back the tent to the Reykholtsdalr. The greater part of the day’s journey will lie across the Vr&idalstiinguheP&i (Willow-dale-tongue’s-heath), an elevated tract of moorland lying a thousand feet or more above sea- level. In the autumn grouse are very numerous here. A longish day’s ride. At Haukagil farm and Orimstimgur (Grimr’s-tongue) parsonage, there is very fair accommodation; and fishing, with the remotest possible chance of a salmon and the certainty of large trout, in the Vatnsdalsa (Water-dale-river). A pleasant day’s ex- cursion can be made up the Forswludalr, a very beautiful valley abounding in falls, under the first of which salmon are occasionally caught. A walk up this valley for about three miles above this fall will he highly interesting to the geologist, for here he will see some of the most remarkable basaltic dykes in Iceland. Deep narrow rifts exist in the older rocky strata forming this part of the island, which have been filled up with molten basaltic lava. "Where these intersect the valley, they jut out in high narrow walls of rock, weathered into gigantic pinnacles in many places. Thirty-eirst Day.—Haukagil to Hjaltalakki. The first part of the day’s journey will be down the thickly-peopled Vatnsdalr. The best road is on the west side of the river; but any one geologically minded should ford the river and ride down on the east side, and see the vast slopes of debris under the mountains on that side of the valley. They should also examine the remarkable cones of upheaval on the west side of the river, north of the lake, between it and SveinsttirSr (Swain-stead). Many ages ago volcanic matters attempted to force an outlet here from a deeply seated channel, but the superincumbent rocky strata offered such great resistance, that the exertion of force necessary to fracture these undoubtedly forced an outlet elsewhere, for, although innumerable cones of upheaval were formed, no molten matter issued here, beyond cores of lava that welled up through outlets, in the centre of several of the cones. Many of the cones have weathered away, as also have the outer and more porous portions of the rocky cores, leaving immense blocks which, if it were not that there is abundant evidence of their formation in the manner stated around, would be

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