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APPENDIX. D.

ODES AND LETTERS

PRESENTED

BY THE LITERATI OF ICELAND

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

SIR JOSEPH BANKS

AND THE

HONORABLE CAPTAIN JONES.

APPENDIX. D.

ODES AND LETTERS.

The ORIGINALS OF THE Odes were wRITTEN BOTH IN LATIN AND ICELANDIC; THE LATTER, HOWEVER, I HAVE NOT THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO INSERT, EXCEPT IN THE INSTANCE OF THAT TO CAPTAIN JONES, WHICH IS GIVEN AS A SPECIMEN OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY.

Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are Addresses to SIR JOSEPH BANKS from BIARNE JONESON, and No. 4 a Letter from THEODORE JONESON.

No. 5 is a congratulatory Address from MAGNUS FINNUSEN
to CAPTAIN JONES.

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Jam

Rubra Cimelia,

Pluresque alias,
Quas habui,
Eximias opes,

per terrarum orbem Quas olim nacta sum

* Primam Heklæ eruptionem quidam Annales ponunt ad annum 1004; alii alitèr; si autem quot vicibus talia in monte hoc contigerint incendia scire desideras, vicies ter id factum esse creditur. Ab hoc tempore nobilitari imprimis cæpit, antea minùs celebris.

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* Alluditur hìc ad horrendos et altisonos Heklæ strepitus in eruptionibus.

+ Guma Minni (verba archetypi Islandici) propriè denotat memoriales scyphos, clarorum virorum in compotationibus

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