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The colour of the water is also a remarkable feature in this river; it inclines so much to milky white, that, when the sun shines on it, it requires no very strong imaginative power to take the whole for milk. Nearly a mile above the fall we had to cross the Huitha, one of the largest rivers in Iceland.
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.
He eagerly sought opportunities for giving me pleasure, and to him I owe several fine minerals and an Icelandic book of the year 1601. May God reward his kindness and benevolence! July 1st. We retraced our steps as far as the river Huitha, over which we rowed, and then turned in another direction.
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