are dressed in the French style, and rather fashionably.

There is no lack of silk and other costly stuffs.

Some of these are brought from England, but the greater part come from Denmark.
On the king's birthday, which is kept every year at the house of the Stiftsamtmann, the festivities are said to be very grand; on this occasion the matrons appear arrayed in silk, and the maidens in white jaconet; the rooms are lighted with wax tapers.
Some speculative genius or other has also established a sort of club in Reikjavik.

He has, namely, hired a couple of rooms, where the townspeople meet of an evening to discuss "tea-water," bread and butter, and sometimes even a bottle of wine or a bowl of punch.

In winter the proprietor gives balls in these apartments, charging 20 kr.