The mode of feeding them is, as already shewn, very simple; the distances are long, the roads bad, and large rivers, moorlands, and swamps must frequently be passed; so every one rides, both men, women, and children.

The use of carriages is as totally unknown throughout the island as in Syria.
The immediate vicinity of Reikjavik is pretty enough.

Some of the townspeople go to much trouble and expense in sometimes collecting and sometimes breaking the stones around their dwellings.

With the little ground thus obtained they mix turf, ashes, and manure, until at length a soil is formed on which something will grow.

But this is such a gigantic undertaking, that the little culture bestowed on the spots wholly neglected by nature cannot be wondered at.