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686 VON’ TROIL’S LETTERS ON ICELAND.
Dyr Magnus Delagardi
Dygdhar. Odains bygde
Akurs vift af var rekin,
Er nara nift illfkiptin :
Mord hauxa fall hans feerdi
Fridoftum brecko hlijda
Sorg ftora fua og morgum
Sleedir lax hrundum faedo.
Thar fie ofs tho ad eyrir
Thad hann i gudi gladur
Als tred holds goto greida
Grand fyrtift vondra anda ;
Hirdur i Gimlis gardi
Glatt fingur og famklingir
Utvauldum Eingla fueitum
Endalault lof miuk raulto.
EPITAPHIUM.
Conditur hoc tumulo juvenili mortuus evo
Magnus, de Magna Gardia gente fatus.
In multos canus dignus qui viveret annos,
Hei mihi! quod juvenis concidit ante diem.
Hujus enim ingenium cepit non terra. Quid inde?
’Vollite Ceaelicola, reddite Ceelicole.
Dic tumulum {pectans oculo properante viator :
Magno Tuo Cineri fit pia terra levis.
Jonas RUGMAN:
Scripfit Upfaliae anno 1667,
die 14. Februarii.
Letter XVIII.—tTo pRoressor BERGMAN.
Of the Volcanos in Iceland.
Stockholm, Sept. 1, 1773.
Havine received the colleCtion I made in Iceland of the fpecimens of the different
fubftances of which their volcanos are compofed, I take the liberty of fending it to you 3
adding at the fame time a fhort account of thefe burning mountains, which is in part
extracted from Icelandic writers, and partly founded on what I heard from the natives,
as well as from my own obfervations ; and which I do not think unworthy of your
clofer examination. Indeed it is much to be lamented, that fince of late fuch care and
application have been beftowed on the {tudy of natural hiftory, fo little attention has
been paid to the operations of Nature in this remarkable ifland ; for hitherto a very fmall
number of the many volcanos are yet fully known; but that we fhould be more igno-
rant in regard to the wonderful hot fpouting water-fprings with which the country
abounds, is very extraordinary ; not to mention many other uncommon appearances
Jn nature,
My time and attention have been too much confined and taken up to give you fo
complete an account of the curiofities of Iceland as they deferve; but I flatter myfelf
notwith{tanding, ‘hat you will give a favourable reception to the few cbfervations I fhall
make, though they fhould not be fo important as might be expected. We may hope
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