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Updated: June 18, 2025
They divide themselves among different parties, in order that, if one boat founder, the whole family may not be destroyed. I found the cottages of the peasants at Reikjavik smaller, and in every respect worse provided, than those at Havenfiord.
This difference in the vegetation is, I think, to be ascribed to the high walls of lava existing in great abundance round Havenfiord; they protect the tender plants and ferns from the piercing winds. I noticed that both the grass and the plants before mentioned throve capitally in the little hollows formed by masses of lava.
We drifted about in the storm-tost ocean, and many a Spanish wave broke completely over our ship. At length, at the close of the eleventh day, we reached Havenfiord, a very good harbour, distant nine miles from Reikjavik, the capital of Iceland. In spite of the very inopportune change in the direction of the wind, we had had an unprecedentedly quick passage.
She marched on so sturdily before me, that I was obliged to incite my little horse to greater speed with my riding-whip. At first the road lay between masses of lava, where it certainly was not easy to ride; then over flats and small acclivities, from whence we could descry the immense plain in which are situated Havenfiord, Bassastadt, Reikjavik, and other places.
If any person could suddenly, and without having made the journey, be transported into one of these houses, he would certainly fancy himself in some continental town, rather than in the distant and barren island of Iceland. And as in Havenfiord, so I found the houses of the more opulent classes in Reikjavik, and in all the places I visited.
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