The long skirts suck up the water from the damp grass, and the wearer has often literally not a dry stitch in all her garments.
Heat and cold appear in this country to affect strangers in a remarkable degree.

The cold seemed to me more piercing, and the heat more oppressive in Iceland, than when the thermometer stood at the same points in my native land.
In summer the roads are marvellously good, so that one can generally ride at a pretty quick pace.

They are, however, impracticable for vehicles, partly because they are too narrow, and partly also on account of some very bad places which must occasionally be encountered.

On the whole island not a single carriage is to be found.
The road is only dangerous when it leads through swamps and moors, or over fields of lava.

Among these fields, such as are covered with white moss are peculiarly to be feared, for the moss frequently conceals very dangerous holes, into which the horse can easily stumble.