Not far from Skalholt we came to the river Thiorsa, which is deep and rapid.

We crossed in a boat; but the horses had to swim after us.

It is often very troublesome to make the horses enter these streams; they see at once that they will have to swim.

The guide and boatmen cannot leave the shore till the horses have been forced into the stream; and even then they have to throw stones, to threaten them with the whip, and to frighten them by shouts and cries, to prevent them from returning.
When we had made nearly twelve miles on marshy roads, we came to the beautiful waterfall of the Huitha.

This fall is not so remarkable for its height, which is scarcely more than fifteen to twenty feet, as for its breadth, and for its quantity of water.