G2 FROM ENGLAND TO ICELAND. the second fall of the Oxara, and fording the stream a little to the right we reach Thingvellir at last, and are not sorry that the day’s journey is at an end. My companion and Gudmundsen, having for- tunately preceded me, have managed tc secure not only7 the best room in the parsonage, but, what is much more important, the two best beds. They have thus forestalled the members of the other expedition, who have resoived themselves into a committee of ways and means and are deeply engrossed in discussing the serious ques- tion as to which of the seven ought,—in virtue of age, delicacy7 of constitution, or other sufficient reason,— to occupy the only two remaining beds. It is an anxious moment for the five unfortunates who after a hard ride of nearly forty miles—(which in at least one instance has resulted in the loss of a few square inches of epidermis)—will probably have to lie down upon bare boards. Another serious matter is also weighing heavily upon their minds. They have already7 been on the premises for upwards of an hour, and it is now nearly nine o’clock at night, yet there are no signs of supper, and they are all desperately7 hungry. “ All things come to those who know how to wait,” however, even in Iceland, and shortly after my arrival a repast, which includes coffee, brown bread, cheese, butter, and boiled char (the latter fresh from the lake) is spread befoie us and enjoyed. Having satisfied our appetites, we stroll through the churchyard, where we see the famous stone used in days of old as the national standard of measure. The church itself, like ail the sacred edifices in the country, is a plain little wooden structure capable of holding comfortably about

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