128 GUIDE TO ICELAND. of hard lava, the crown of a solid pillar, which froze in the tube.’ After examining Fldborg, the travellers will descend to the sea- shore, and the heads of several shallow hays will be waded through. Upon quitting the shore, a very swampy path leads up to Miklaholt parsonage. ‘Umbra’ gives an amusing account of the passage of the morass here, too lengthy to quote in full. He says : ‘We could not make straight for it (the parsonage), but had to stalk it, as the sportsman on Scottish hills stalks the stag... A narrow causeway of rough, loose stones exists in places; which, detestable, as it is to ride on abstractedly, is the only chance of safety.’ The people at Miklaholt have been found by travellers very obliging. The river near here is a Laxa, which has seldom been fished with a fly. The ponies should be allowed a day’s rest here. Fifteenth Dat.—Miklaholt to BitiSir (Booths). A charming day’s ride along the shores of the Faxafjdr^Sr, with the Snafells Jokull towering like a gigantic snow-covered pyramid to the west- ward. Sta¥>astar&r parsonage should be made a half-way house for a cup of coffee. Bv?6ir is, or was, a trading post, and Burton says : ‘ is far-famed for chalybeate springs. Huts for invalids have been run up at this well-known (?) “ Kur-ort.” ’ Sixteenth Bat. — Excursion to the Stapi Basaltic Caverns. Return to Bu/Sir to sleep, as the accommodation there is superior to the fishermen’s dwellings at Stapi; or, if it is wished to ride round the base of the Jokull on the morrow, push on to Laugar- brekka parsonage for the night. The latter course is recommended, as the scenery is said to be superb, and the traveller may see—it is to be hoped at a safe distance—an avalanche of rocky debris come thundering down from the mountain near where the track passes under Mini (the Brow), a precipice just west of O'lafsvik (Olafs- wick). If an assault on the Jokull is contemplated, Laugarbrekka should be made one’s head-quarters. Burton says (vol. ii. p. 97): ‘ The Beruvik farm (near laugarbrekka) appears to be a good start- ing place.’ He also pens the following respecting the attempts made to scale the icy giant: ‘ The earliest climbers seem to have attempted the ascent from the east and south-east, where the snow- line extends much lower. Such were Eggert OQafsson (1755); Mr., afterwards Sir, John Stanley (1789); and the three Britishers who “wrote their mistresses’ names in the snow—the emblem of their purity.” Sir George Mackenzie (1810) remained below, and Brs. Bright and Holland went stoutly up. . . . They were followed by Henderson (1814), by Gaimard (1835), and by Eorbes (1859).

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