This paper describes Schythe's exploratory and prospecting travels to Greenland 1838 and to Iceland 1839-40.
It will be published in the form of two articles in Dansk Kemi2021, 102, Nr. 2 and 3. The augmented English version is presented here.
Two further articles will follow in Nr. 4 (Schythe, the Agriculture and St. St. Blicher 1842-43) and Nr. 5 (Schythe's second Iceland-journey, the geochemical expedition to Hekla 1846).