ROUTE I.—TO GEYSIR AND HEKLA. 101 obliging, but have somewhat expansive ideas on the subject of re- muneration. In Ultima Thule, as elsewhere, English tourists have evidently rendered the people living near the ‘ lions ’ avaricious. It will be as well to repeat here what has been before observed in the introductory information, there is but the most remote chance in the world of seeing the Oeysir erupt unless a tent is brought and pitched in its vicinity, its eruptions taking place with great uncertainty. It has been known to remain quiescent for a week, and unlike its irritable neighbour, the now equally famous Str older, it is not to be bullied into an eruption at the will of visitors by drastic herbal treatment in the shape of huge doses of turf. It speaks but little for the enterprise of the farmer at Haulcadalr, who is a comparatively rich man, that he has not long ere this erected a house in the immediate vicinity of the Geysir for the accommoda- tion of tourists. Fourth Day.—This will be passed awaiting an eruption of the Geysir, forcing Strolder into activity once or oftener in the mean- while. Should the day be fine, the time will pass away very pleasantly, there being over fifty boiling springs within, at the most, half a mile of the principal ones, and a remarkable grotto filled with water, but little below boiling-point, named Blesi (Blaze—as on the face of a horse), whose roof is broken in, allowing a glimpse of the interior. A brief description will now be given of the sights of this interesting locality. The two chief geysirs are the Geysir ‘ par excellence,’ and the Str older. The first named, as just said, is very uncertain in its eruptions, sometimes ejecting enormous columns of boiling water to a height approaching a hundred feet at intervals of a few hours, while at other times it remains quiescent for several days. The Strokkr lies ninety paces nearly due south of its world-renowned neighbour, and, fortunately for sight-seers, can at all times be excited into an eruption by partly choking up its pipe—a hollow like a huge test-tube in a bed of siliceous sinter—with a considerable quantity of turf. The Geysir, on the contrary, evinces contemptuous indifference to such indignities. The Strokler also ‘ spouts ’ voluntarily at uncertain intervals. The Geysir and its satellites are situated at the base of an eminence of no great height, the Laugafjall—not lofty mountain- range as shown in engravings—in a tract of hot viscid clay and mineral earths of various colours, red and yellow are conspicuous, raised a few feet above the level of the grassy plain lying between the Laugafjall on the west and the Tiingujljdt. (Tongue-flood) on the

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