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2. The angelica clusters (the fuimar colony).
The angelica clusters are found in the fulmar colony
on the cliffs, where it is not too steep, and on broad ledges,
usually in the outer islands. There is more angelica in si-
tuations not exposed to the sun; the fulmar also prefers
the shade. The soil is shallow but varying as to the degree
of moisture: it is often gravelly; there is moss here.
C. GULTIVATED SOIL.
Cultivated land covers ca. 1/3 of the lowland on Heima-
ey and is either meadow land or vegetable gardens.
1. Cultivated meadow landL
The cultivated meadow land is either ”þaksléttur” 1
(old cultivated land), or ”sáðsléttur” 2 (newer meadow
land), or a natural growth. The ”þaksléttur” are cultivated
on the turf formation, but the "sáðsléttur” either on turf
or gravel. The meadows yield 2 to 3 crops a summer with
good manure (stable manure and fish refuse).
2. Vegetable gardens. These consist of fields of po-
tatoes and turnips. The potato fields cultivated on sandy
gravel and reclaimed land give especially good crops (cf-
Appendix p. 00).
IV. THE CLIMATE.
Table 1 shows the climate in the Westmann Islands for
the years 1921—1930 as shown in the weather reports of
1) "þaksléttur” = land which has been levelled by cutting off
the tufts and mounds and using the turf obtained in this way to
fill up hollows.
2) ”sáðsléttur” = land which has been levelled and ploughed
and then sown with grass.