5. F. Paully. “Topographie von Dänmark einschliesslich Islands,” etc., Altona, 1828.
6. Björnus Gunnlaugi, filius. “De Mensurâ et Delineatione Islandiæ interioris,” etc. In Monasterio Videyensi, 1834.
7. John Barrow, jun. “A Visit to Iceland” (in 1834), published in 1835: the volumes are highly useful, as affording an excellent comparison of the past with the present.
8. The Hon. Arthur Dillon published “A Winter (1834) in Iceland and Lapland.” 2 vols. Colburn, London, 1840. The season happened to be especially rigorous, of course preventing long travels into the interior: the studies of agriculture and fisheries have especial interest. Mr Dillon has visited Iceland more than once.
9. “Lettres sur l’Islande,” par N. Marmier, 8vo, Paris, 1837.[277]
10. “Voyage en Islande et au Groenlande, exécuté pendant les années 1855 et 1856 sur la Corvette ‘La Recherche,’ commandée par M. Tréhouart, Lieutenant de Vaisseau dans le but de découvrir les traces de la Lilloise. Publié par ordre du Roi, sous la direction de M. Paul Gaimard, Président de la Commission Scientifique d’Islande et de Groënland.” 8 vols. 8vo.
| Tome | 1. Histoire de Voyage, par M. P. Gaimard, 8vo, Paris, 1838. |
| “ | 2. Histoire de Voyage, par M. Eugène Robert[278], 8vo, Paris, 1850. |
| “ | 3. Journal de Voyage, par M. Eugène Mequet, 8vo, Paris, 1852. |
| “ | 4. Zoologie et Médicine, par M. Eugène Robert, 8vo, Paris, 1851. |
| “ | 5. Minéralogie et Géologie, par M. Eugène Robert,[278] 8vo, Paris, 1840. |
| “ | 6. Physique, par M. Victor Lottin, 8vo, Paris, 1838. |
| “ | 7. Histoire d’Islande, par M. Xavier Marmier, 8vo, Paris, 1840. |
| “ | 8. Littérature Islandaise, par M. Xavier Marmier, 8vo, Paris, 1843. |
This expedition was determined upon in the year 1835, and was followed by another in 1836. The government of Louis Philippe, claiming to be in the van of civilisation, resolved to give the voyage a scientific aspect, and to publish it regardless of expense—the cost is about £21. It is admirably got up, with every luxe of printing; there is Gallic discipline in the strict editorial control; and each contributor is allowed full advantage of space and illustrations—what a contrast to the shabby article which ultra-economical England would have produced! But, though semi-official, it is an immense mass of undigested information, greatly varying in value; and the President, who had accompanied Captain Freycinet in the circumnavigating frigate “Uranie,” is not generally over-appreciated in Iceland. His illustrations are so exaggerated as to be simply ridiculous, and unfortunately they have been transferred to the pages of succeeding authors. Thus Dufferin borrows the two Needles off Snæfell and the Icelandic girl, and Paijkull takes Hekla, whilst the cave of Surtshellir and the domestic interior are reproduced by Forbes, who gives additional horrors to the Bruará.
11. “Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ ab anno 1740 ad annum 1840,” auctore P. Pètursson. Havniæ: Bianco Luno, 1841. A continuation of the learned Hannes Finsson’s well-known book, written in Danish and Latin by the present Bishop of Iceland.
12. Lieutenant-Colonel North Ludlow Beamish, “Discovery of America by the Northmen in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere” (1841).