INTRODUCTION. 17 necessary. It would take from five to six weeks, as after several of the day’s journeys the ponies would he greatly fatigued by the fording of the broad, rapid rivers, and need a day’s rest. To two persons travelling together the cost of this tour would not exceed a pound a head daily for each person, unless a strong party of guides were hired for the exploration of the Kotlugja. Having mentioned the outlines of the four chief tours in Iceland, the author will next say a few words to that numerous class who aim in their vacation tours to combine sport with sight-seeing. To those who would be satisfied with a bag of a couple of hundred brace or so of feathered game, which would include swans, curlew, plover, snipe, duck, and grouse—chiefly, the author believes, a hybrid between the willow grouse (Lagopus subalpina, Nilss.) and the ptarmigan {Lagopus Alpina, Linn.), and a creel of about the same number of trout, running from one to four lbs. in weight, and the chance of a shot at a reindeer, the author can safely say, Go to Iceland; for he knows of no country in Europe, now Norway is virtually closed to alien sportsmen by the order prohibiting the disembarkation of dogs from foreign countries, where such good sport with the gun is obtainable free as in this island. Upon each of the author’s three visits, the time slipt away there like a pleasant dream, and the hour of departure came all too soon : the month of July was passed riding from one river to another, waging war against the Salmonidte,1 with an occasional excursion to a volcano or some other point of interest; the early part of August scouring the wilds east of Myvatn in search of reindeer, and the latter part of that month and the first week or so in September were spent grouse and duck shooting. The author regrets to be compelled to say, he cannot hold out much chance of salmon fishing, unless the nets are bought off a river, or one is rented on lease. Either of these modes of procedure would be very expensive, as all the riparian owners net their waters unmercifully, and, as some years salmon attempt— they rarely succeed, thanks to the nets—to ascend the Icelandic rivers in vast numbers, make a considerable sum of money by selling the fish to English fish-dealers and the Danish merchants, therefore the nets are not to be bought off lightly. Last year (1881) as much as Id. per lb. was being paid for salmon at the trading posts. 1 Under the heading ‘ Piscatorial Rambles in Iceland,’ an account of these angling excursions in 1878 and 1880 will be found in ‘ The Field,’ Nos. 1483 to 1488. Doubtless a few copies are still obtainable at 1 The Field ’ office. 2

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