OEAFSF.N AND POVEI.SEN's 4 2 is, with in the distance of ten miles. In the morning we crossed the valley of Reykholtz, the bottom of which abounds in hot springs, and exhales a subterraneous heat. In the whole of this neighbourhood, there were evident marks of slight eruptions, the pasturages being in many parts destroyed and covered with scoria, while such spots, as have not been subjected to the action of the tire, present eminences abounding with herbage. The soil, even in the parts that have been attacked by the fire, is nevertheless covered with birch-wood and shrubs, a variety which renders it very agreeable. On the 10th August, in the morning, the air was calm, but the atmosphere was so loaded with fog, that at times the glacier was not perceptible. About 11 o’clock, however, it cleared up, and we continued our journey from the village of Karlsina- runge. The high mountains of Iceland generally rise in gradations, so that on approaching them, you discover only the nearest elevation, or that uliose summit forms the first projection; on reaching this, you clear a similar height and arrive at the next, •and so pass over successive elevations till you reach the summit of the ridge. In the glaciers, these projections generally commence in the highest parts, and may be discovered at a distance, because they overtop those mountains that do not form the glaciers themselves. This journey afforded us ample room for observation: and we remarked, that here the lowest mass of rocks was also the strongest. On attaining the first elevation, we perceived that the grass and plants became more scarce; and on advancing the eighth of a mile farther, they were no longer to be seen ; there was even a want of soil, and on ar- riving a little higher, we found nothing but barren rocks and stonv ruins, which w'eve no where susceptible of fertility. We now found, that it was much farther to the glacier than we hud imagined ; and at length reached a file of rocks, which, without forming steps or gradations at the part where we as- cended, were of a considerable height and very steep. These rocks extend to a great distance, and appear to make a circinn- vallaticn around the glacier; for we perceived their continuance as far as the eye could reach. Between this file of rocks and the glacier, there is a small plain about a quarter of a mile in width, the soil of which is clayey, and exposes neither pebbles nor flakes of ice, because the Wald'S that continually flow from the glacier, carry them off. On advancing a little farther, we discovered to the right a lake situated at one of the angles of the glacier; the banks of which were covered with ice, and the bed received a part of the waters that ran from the mountain. The water appeared entirely green, a colour it acquired by the

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