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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER VIII
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The theatre seemed large enough for the population; but I did not enter it.
The freemasons' lodge is one of the most beautiful buildings in the town; it contains two large saloons, which are used for assemblies or festivities of various kinds, besides serving as the meeting-place of the freemasons.

The university seemed almost too richly built; it is not finished yet, but is so beautiful that it would be an ornament to the largest capital.

The butchers' market is also very pretty.

It is of a semi-circular shape, and is surrounded by arched passages, in which the buyers stand, sheltered from the weather.

The whole edifice is built of bricks, left in their natural state, neither stuccoed with mortar nor whitewashed.


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