When, on my return from Hecla, I came to Reikjavik, I said jocularly that it would be most strange if this Etna of the north should also have an eruption now.
Scarcely had I left Iceland more than five weeks when an eruption, more violent than the former one, really took place.

This circumstance is the more remarkable, as it had been in repose for eighty years, and was already looked upon as a burnt-out volcano.

If I were to return to Iceland now, I should be looked upon as a prophetess of evil, and my life would scarcely be safe.
{44} Every peasant in tolerably good circumstances carries a little tent with him when he leaves home for a few days.

These tents are, at the utmost, three feet high, five or six feet long, and three broad.
{45} "Though their poverty disables them from imitating the hospitality of their ancestors in all respects, yet the desire of doing it still exists: they cheerfully give away the little they have to spare, and express the utmost joy and satisfaction if you are pleased with the gift." _Uno von Troil_, 1772 .-- ED.
{46} The presence of American ships in the port of Gottenburg is not to be wondered at, seeing that nearly three-fourths of all the iron exported from Gottenburg is to America .-- ED.
{47} "St.Stephen's steeple" is 450 feet high, being about 40 feet higher than St.Paul's, and forms part of St.Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a magnificent Gothic building, that dates as far back as the twelfth century.

It has a great bell, that weighs about eighteen tons, being more than double the weight of the bell in St.Peter's at Rome, and four times the weight of the "Great Tom of Lincoln." The metal used consisted of cannons taken from the Turks during their memorable sieges of Vienna.