The weather soon cleared up, and I continued my journey to the Geyser and to Mount Hecla on the 24th June.

On the first day, when we rode to Thingvalla, we passed no new scenery, but saw instead an extremely beautiful atmospheric phenomenon.
[Picture: The Geysers] As we approached the lake, some thin mist-clouds lowered over it and over the earth, so that it seemed as if it would rain.

One portion of the firmament glowed with the brightest blue; while the other part was obscured by thick clouds, through which the sun was just breaking.

Some of its rays reached the clouds of mist, and illuminated them in a wonderfully beautiful manner.

The most delicate shades of colour seemed breathed, as it were, over them like a dissolving rainbow, whose glowing colours were intermingled and yet singly perceptible.