On the 19th of June, for about a mile, that is an Icelandic mile, we walked upon hardened lava; this ground is called in the country 'hraun'; the writhen surface presented the appearance of distorted, twisted cables, sometimes stretched in length, sometimes contorted together; an immense torrent, once liquid, now solid, ran from the nearest mountains, now extinct volcanoes, but the ruins around revealed the violence of the past eruptions.
La lava arrugada de la superficie afectaba la forma de calabrotes, unas veces prolongados, otras veces adujados. De las montañas vecinas descendían inmensas corrientes, ya solidificadas, de lava, procedentes de volcanes, actualmente apagados, pero cuya violencia pasada pregonaban estos vestigios.