identically the same. I speak now of men as well as women, for
the most affected creatures I have seen in Europe are of the male sex.
So pardon me, fair ladies, for any reflection upon your crinoline, and
accept as my apology this candid avowal--that while you are naturally
angelic, and always beautiful beyond comparison, in spite of what you
do to disfigure your lovely persons, we men are naturally savages, and
are driven to the barbarous expedient of adorning and beautifying our
ugly bodies with gewgaws, tinsel, and jimcrackery, in order that they
may be acceptable in your eyes.

On my return to Reykjavik I found that the steamer was to sail next
day. I was very anxious to visit Mount Hecla, but my time and means
were limited, and would not permit of a farther sojourn in this
interesting land. It was a great satisfaction to have seen any thing
of it at all; and if I have given the reader even a slight glimpse of
its wonders, my trip has not been entirely unsuccessful.

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