Adventures Of W. L. Howard, The Young Explorer, In Iceland

The ('Incido Timos of last Fr iday conained the followlog incident of the second sniiiiiier trip of Mr. William 1-ee Howard i tliis city, m of Mark Howuni. Esq., to he Interior of leeland. Tlie account was Capled trom Londou by oueof theassistant editors of the Times : William Lee Howard, of Hartford, Conn., who left Leilli, BcotUnd, last April, toexjlore Iceland to satiofy a longiög tor adenlure, reached here last night. In an nterview be said tliat all the memucis of lic expedition were in good healtti, In ratte f the hardíliips eneountercd. Herlubreid, which Captain Hurton tricd in vain to reach in 1S72, was thoroughly exlored on July 11, tlie lop bcing rnaehvd atter thirty-eiffht hours of the Ulot daogerous climbinfr. Howard was alone during the last nine hours of the ascent, the only other man of the party who would inake the attempt belng disabled by a falling boulder. He fouud the mouutaln composed irincipally of ])larioniti', covered with a hiik layer of basalt. The summit was ¦ovcicd'wiUi a layer of lava, which he es;imates at not over 75 years old, proving it t a volcano and upsetUiig all previouscon¦lusions and thcories of eminent eologists. I'liis is the lirst time a ñaman betng has ¦ver icachcd this región, the natives sav. island was twice ciossed. He thinks the sandy región in the interior a glacial deposlt datinj; back to the glacial period. The party had sevei-al narro csc;i):s for ;hclr lives. They croseed enormous quicksands by maklng a Hoor trom blankcts, nts, etu. They have diacovtred niany i'actg of the greateat geographksal value, ncluding a lakc excelling any hltberto nown in Iceland, with woiiderful water'alls and caves whoee basaltic formations outrank Flngal's cave or the (iiant's Cause way. They have succeeded in taking and Sringing home photographic negatives of ¦VCTXUIIHK ..I t. .-„ni Il.,,,.,,-l .,, mei: u i delégate to the meeting of the geographiea] attoclation ut Veiiice and then returns to the Tnitt-d States to resume his medie] studies in New York. Mr. Howard says icebergs will be from one to two months late this vear in coming down