74 OLAFSEN AND TOVELSEN’s thus find his way back. Other weak-minded people endeavoured to dissuade us from our project, by relating various fables of gnomes and other phantoms, but without success; for all they said, only contributed to augment our curiosity; besides which, we took pleasure in making an attempt that might cure these good people of their prejudices. The 30th of June, the barometer began to ascend: the weather was fine, and the clouds dispersed; while the thermometer proved, that the cold had diminished. On the 1 st of J ulv, in the afternoon, we set off with every pre- paration for our journey. Our instruments consisted of a com- pass, a Fahrenheit’s thermometer, and a barometer. Our shoes were like those worn in the country, having very thin soles, as being best adapted for walking on the ice. We also had some strong ropes for assisting such of the party as might fall into holes or crevices, which are very numerous about the neck of the gla- cier. We likewise took the precaution of providing black crape, to put over our faces in case the light should be too strong, as well as a sponge and vinegar to respire it, if the air should become too rarified. We had a tedious journey from mountain to mountain, before we reached the glacier. Our barometcrembarrassed us considera- bly, and we were often obliged to descend from our horses, in order to convey it on foot. In short, four hours bad elapsed before we gained the summit of the highest mountain, which forms, as it were, the base or seat of the glacier; and here we found the cold very severe, as water froze, and the ground was covered with ice. A little farther we reached the (Jeldingafell, a higher moun- tain than any of the others that form the support of the glacier. We saw scarcely any snow on its summit, and ascended it on the side where it touches the glacier; because the ice descends so tar on the right and left as to project to a considerable distance beyond the mountain itself. We remarked on the north and west, where the ice forms a bank, a quantity of stones, which had been regraded by water; though, to the north of these strata of ice, we only observed one small river, or rivulet, and, to the south, a few others; which, if taken together, appear to form only a small portion of the water, which must be produced by so considerable a mountain and such a quantity of ice and snow, from which we concluded, that the glacier must have a cavity at its base, that ingulphs the rest. Hence we should not consider as altogether fabulous, the account related of the plain* to the west, which are said to have formerly contained such extensive rivers, that mer- chants’ ships could ascend by them to the very foot of the moun- tain, where may still be seen the remains of houses reported to have formed the magazines of the Irish merchants. 'I he land which surrounds the glacier is on all sides covered

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