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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER V
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arrived at the bridge.

Of course the poor creatures observed the dangerous ground, and could only be driven by hard blows to advance.

Hardly twenty paces off there were stones in abundance; but rather than devote a few minutes to filling up the holes, these lazy people beat their horses cruelly, and exposed them to the risk of breaking their legs.

I pitied the poor animals, which would be compelled to recross the bridge, so heartily, that, after they are gone, I devoted a part of my resting-time to collecting stones and filling up the holes,--a business which scarcely occupied me a quarter of an hour.
It is interesting to notice how the horses know by instinct the dangerous spots in the stony wastes, and in the moors and swamps.

On approaching these places they bend their heads towards the earth, and look sharply round on all sides.


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