ROUTE III.----A' SUMMER’S TOUR IN ICELAND. 153 flood from Hekla in 1845 has been computed to contain 14,400 millions of cubic feet (Danish) ; while those from Vesuvius in 1794 and 1855 have been computed at 730 and 570 millions of cubic feet respectively. These, it will he seen, are dwarfed into insignificance by the magnitude of the lava eruption in the Myvatns Orcefi in 1875. Jon Petursson, of Reylcjahl'v6, gave the author the following par- ticulars of the eruption. Lava was first seen issuing in the Orcefi on the 18th February, forty-five days after the earthquake accom- panying an explosion in Askja on the 4th January ; but it is pro- bable the fiery flood commenced to stream forth immediately after the earthquake, which doubtless opened the rift, no one having crossed from Reykjahl'vS to the eastward or vice versd during that period. For nearly four months the lava continued to stream forth more or less freely, and then ceased to flow until the 15th August, when a smart shock of earthquake was felt, and a slight eruption of ashes and volcanic bombs took place from the rift at its northern- most end, the lava-flow recommencing and continuing for several days. Forty-eighth Day.—Reylgahl'i% to Skutustaftir (Skuti’s-stead). A three hours’ ride, chiefly through the lava-beds fringing the lake on the east; a wild tract of tremendously rugged lava, split into deep ravines, where the cliffs occasionally present more the appearance of man’s than nature’s handiwork—here assuming the form of a vast ruinous castellated building, overgrown with mosses and lichens ; there the ruins of some old cloister, the lava being hollowed out into arches, almost perfectly Gothic in form. At the south end of the lake many isolated rugged masses of lava of fantastic form jut out of the water. One, when seen at a certain angle, appears like an ancient galley, with its solitary huge square-sail set to the breeze, and a man sitting in the stern steering; a thin slab of upheaved lava-crust forms the sail, and a smaller piece, right aft, the steersman. Shortly after this is seen, a shallow bay will be waded, and the travellers will land on a sparsely grass-covered hill, which is a vast heap of cinders. Here the lake will be quitted for a short distance, and, after fording a small stream abounding in trout, the party will wend their way amid a number of crater-cones, in one of which, not far distant from S/cutusta^Sir, a pair of eagles had an eyrie for many years. Good accommodation at Skutusta^ir parsonage ; and excellent trout fishing is obtainable in the upper waters of the Laxd, especially about three miles from its outlet from Hyvatn. Duck shooting not allowed on

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