Great part of the side of the street, opposite the shops, is spread with stones about the size of a dessert plate, for sun-drying fish, which is tho chief article of export. The houses of the poorer classes are very small and miserable.: The low walls are composed of alternate layers of stone and turf, and tho roof is : turf. The town looked wonderfully clean, but we learned that there had been a general furbishing up to roceive the King. Tho genoral aspect of the place is that .of a fishing village, and the people were dressed very much like those you ordinal iiy meet' in such a placo afc home. Tlio only striking peculiarity of custom was tliat the women wear no bonnets, and I did not sco : so much as one muslin or cotton cap during my stay m Iceland. The head-dress worn by old • and young alike, is a small round piece of black woollen cloth abont live inches m diameter, pinned to the hair on the top of tho head, from which is suspended a long tassel passing through a ferule of silvor or gilt metal. The tassel

is hung indiscriminately over the right or left shoulder, and adds piquancy to the charms of a pretty face. The women are, however, not good-looking, and I did not see more tlian three or four faces it would have been a pleasure to salute. As a rule, the faces are broad and flat, and have a touch of Esquimaux about them. Reykjavik boasts of a church built of stono and lime, the only stone and lime building, I believe, on the island.. In ternally it presents much the same ap pearance as the Rev Mr Macgregor's church, and the resemblance would be close if Mr Macgregor's pulpit were pushed a couple of yards aside, and a recess formed behind it containing a marble baptismal font aud a communion table, and if an organ were constructed at the opposito end of the building. The fi.nt is an exquisite work of art hy Thorvaldsen, who was of Icelandic ex traction. On each side are little pictures carved m relief, the most lovely m my eyeß being a group of three sweet children with angelic wings. 