144 GUIDE TO ICELAND. it is very doubtful—the farmer at Laxarmyri could be induced to accommodate the travellers for a night, it would be far better to halt there than return to LLiisav'ik, as the time could be very pleasantly passed fishing in the Laxa. Should this be arranged, do not fail to try the pool below the lower falls, where the fresh water falls into the tidal reach of the river, it is the most likely place for a salmon. Fish up stream on the opposite (western) bank, till abreast of the farm where the travellers ferried the river after visiting Tintronia. There is usually a boat below the falls, in which the anglers can cross the river, and at this farm they will recross, and walk over the moors back to Laxarmyri. A seal may occasionally be shot at the month of the river ; and the farmer is very glad to hear of the death of one, as the phocae injure his salmon fishery. From LLiisav'ik, a pleasant day’s excursion may be made to Hr'ings- verhvylft (? The Cleft-of-the-ring), where there are some remarkable beds of ‘ Surtarbrandr,’ a variety of lignite, and beds of fossil shells. Just before reaching the lignite beds, a pretty little fall, the Skeifar/oss, will be seen. About midway from LLiisav'ik the path passes along the brow of a cliff, below which is a noted ‘ seal ground,’ and, if the animals have not been recently disturbed, the rocks below will be seen literally alive -with seals. A shot must upon no account be fired within a mile of this part of the shore. Foety-thibd Day.—LLiisav'ik, or Laxarmyri to As. About six hours’ ride; decent road, after crossing the fells and a lava-filled hollow. As the traveller on this day’s journey traverses that part of the country lying due north of the range of volcanoes intersecting the island from Krafla and Leirhnukr southward, he will notice that the basaltic lava strata, composing this part of the island, are deeply fissured in several places by rifts running from south to north. A few miles farther south, the whole face of the country for a distance of over twenty miles from north to south, by a width of from seven to eight miles, has been completely shattered by explosions causing violent shocks of earthquake. Many rifts have been thus tom open during the last two decades, and steam was seen to belch forth from the newly opened rifts at the time of their formation. Some of the rifts stretch southward for quite twenty miles, almost to the volcano Leirlmiikr. In 1872 the shocks of earthquake here were terribly violent, and several farmsteads were levelled with the ground. The shock of earthquake caused by the explosion in Ashja on the 4th January, 1875, was felt in this district very severely. The author last year (1881) struck across the desert in a beeline from the

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