142 GUIDE TO ICELAND. on the delta between the two rivers, the Slcjalfandafljot and Laxa, are a number of very remarkable lava-pillars and cones, similar to the one near pingvellir, to which, it will be remembered, was given the name of Tintron, and which was said by ‘ Umbra ’ to be ‘ the only one known to exist in the world ’ This region here should be called ‘ Tintronia,’ for a level plain some miles in extent is studded with Tintrons. Some will be seen having an opening at its base as well as at its summit, and more than one of these is utilized as a sheepfold. It will be necessary to ferry the Laxa, at a farm between Nes and Laxdrmyri (Salmon-river-muir). In the waters belonging to the latter farm a salmon may occasionally be caught. This farm is the richest in all Iceland, and the newly erected farmhouse is wholly of wood in the Norwegian style. The farmer declines to receive travellers : and it will be as well, perhaps, to mention that Englishmen are not very well received in this district, thanks to a defaulting and bankrupt English sulphur mining company, whose resident agent quitted the country with- out settling the debts he had contracted with the people here. This feeling, it is to hoped, will wear away in a few years, when the soreness felt at having been ‘ done ’ is felt less keenly. An hour’s ride from Laxdrmyri will bring the travellers to LLdsav'ilc, where there is a small inn, with a very obliging and painstaking landlady. There is but one merchant here, Herra Gu^johnsson, of whom every one who has visited Husav'ik speaks very favourably. The Danish steamers call at this trading post. Eoety-fikst Day.—Excursion to the Uxdhver, or Northern Geysir, and return to LBisav'ik. If this excursion is made in August, a good bag of grouse may be made, the JLvammshei^&i, a moor south of Laxdrmyri, being one of the best-stocked grouse-moors in all Iceland. The author was one of a party who, in 1880, shot 167 head, besides other game and a falcon, between LBisav'ik and the Uxahver. This geysir lies about three hours’ ride south-east of Laxdrmyri; at the base of a range of hills, the Lambafjoll. The following is a description of the Northern Geysir and its satellites, from the author’s diary in 1878. The Uxahvek, or Ox-Spring—so named as an ox once fell into it, and was after a short interval forcibly ejected to some distance as boiled beef—is a geysir spouting from an oval basin, about thirty feet in circumference* a column of water some four feet in diameter, to a height of from six to ten feet. The spouts take place with great frequency and regularity, five to six minutes only elapsing between the displays, their duration being about half a minute.

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