FROM ENGLAND TO ICELAND. 69 About noou after three or tour hours’ hard riding Gudmundsen returns to report his non-success, and shortly afterwards sets out again in another direc- tion. Growing tired of loafing about the graveyard, or paddling down the river in the parson’s boat, we make up our minds to go on with the three ponies which are standing tethered to the church gate; leaving our guide to follow should he find the wanderers before nightfall. Sira l’rtestur Paulsen who kindly volunteers to accom- pany us a few miles on our way, gives us careful instructions as to the route, and at our request also furnishes us with the following question which we take down in Phonetic Icelandic, “ Whar er veya- guerin till Geysis ?” which means “Which is the way to the Geysirs?” He further instructs us to enquire fora farm called Efstaydalr, about half- way, and to wait there till Gudmundsen joins us, as he thinks it may not be safe to ford the Bruera without a guide. After winding along the plain by a narrow and very rough path for several miles the kindly parson pulls up, bids us “ good bye,” and starts off to hunt up Gudmundsen, having learnt that the missing ponies are in custody on a neighbouring farm. We ride rapidly on, and gradually ascend through a country which seems to grow wilder and drearier as we advance into it.; passing on the way several lava-rifts similar to, but smaller than, the Alman- nagja, the largest of which is called Ravnegja, or Raven’s Rift. It is recorded in Professor Geikie’s work on Physical Geography that “ the floods of lava which poured from Shaptaryokull during the years 1783-5 were the most tremendous ever known. Torrents of molten rock destroyed the surface of

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