ROUTE IV.----UP THE WEST COAST. 163 (Bottom-valley). Here obtain a boy to show the way to the Glymrfoss. It is formed by a small stream, the Botnsa, which leaps into a chasm some 1,200 to 1,500 feet deep, and ‘so narrow that daylight scarce reaches to the bottom; yet so sheer is the fall, so clean the split of the earth, that by long and attentive peering a tiny thread of silver may be seen winding along at the bottom of the caiion.’ The bird’s-eye view of the fjord from this spot is really charming. A hilly ride from the Butnsdalr to the head of the Skorradalsvatn (Magpie-dale-lake), the river feeding which will have to be forded. Another ridge has to be crossed between this valley and the valley of the Gr'imsa, in which lies Lundr, the halting-place for the night. Bair accommodation. Salmon fishing in the Gr'imsa, and it is said there is excellent trout fishing in several streams in the vicinity. Third Day.—Lundr to ipingnes (Thing-naze). An easy day after the fatiguing one yesterday. Three hours’ ride down the Gr'imsdrdalr, and thence about an hour will bring the party to Ipingnes farm. Bair accommodation; salmon fishing; and shooting in August. Ax Excursion to the Snyefell Peninsula, taking fifteen days, may be made from here, rejoining the route at Bor^Segri trading post. See Boute III., ante, pages 125 to 132. Since that route was printed, the author’s attention has been called to the fact that an attempt was made in 1872 by Lord Garvagh—well known as a reindeer stalker in Norway—to attain the summit of the Snafell Jolcull. His lordship thus describes his assault upon the icy giant. His starting-point was BiPSir. He premises that ‘never till to- day having attempted any glacier work, various causes of delay prevented me starting until noon.’ He borrowed here a rope and a couple of primitive iron-headed poles, to serve as Alpenstocks, and his guide ‘ had a trowel, which ho intended to use like an ice axe for cutting pteps. At first there was a ride of two hours. . . . At two o’olock p.m. we left our horses in charge of some one; at four, after getting up some way and traversing a whole district of loose pumice stones, gained the ice. ‘ "We pushed on. Pure and transparent as the atmosphere upon this glacier proverbially is, the deception of it led us on for a considerable time in full view of the summit, before we knew or had any idea how far the summit actually was. But as this annihilation of distance appeared to be somewhat supernatural, we did not believe it, and accordingly went straight on; the snow was in good order, and promised an easy ascent.

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