The beds are separated from each other by strips of turf a foot broad, seldom boasting even a few field-flowers.
The inhabitants of Iceland are generally of middle stature, and strongly built, with light hair, frequently inclining to red, and blue eyes.

The men are for the most part ugly; the women are better favoured, and among the girls I noticed some very sweet faces.

To attain the age of seventy or eighty years is here considered an extraordinary circumstance.

{29} The peasants have many children, and yet few; many are born, but few survive the first year.

The mothers do not nurse them, and rear them on very bad food.