Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the natural history of the country, antiquities, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen / written by Uno von Troil ; with notes and additions by the translator. The whole revised and corrected by E. Mendes da Costa.

  • Troil, Uno von, 1746-1803.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the natural history of the country, antiquities, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. &c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen / written by Uno von Troil ; with notes and additions by the translator. The whole revised and corrected by E. Mendes da Costa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    error, and paints all his objects with a glow of colouring that does not exaclly. correfpond with the truth. In Richer’s Continuation of Rollin’s Hiflory is a hihory of Iceland, a moll pitiful compilation, and full of the g'rolleft errors that ever dhgraced the hiflorical page. Under the authority of tile Royal Society of Sciences at Copenhagen, Eggert Olafsen and Biarne Povelfen, two men of learning, natives of Ice- land, and refiding in the country, travelled all over that ifland, and gave,- in two volumes in cjuarto, a faith- ful and ample account of all that deferves the attention of the learned and curious, illuftrated by ntimerous engravings i but though the perfor- mance IS accurate and circumftantial, yet it is unfortunately clogged with re- petitions, and the facls are recounted in fo tedious and uninterefting a manner, that it requires a moft phlegmatic tem- per, and a large fund of patience, to go through the whole of this work, for it is filled with a long and dufl recital of events, methodized in the moft