Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... glen for some miles the story is the same : ice - worn , ice - scored rocks , perched blocks and scattered débris , prove that a vast glacier once welled up high against the pre- cipitous slopes on either hand ; for the marks extend ...
... glen for some miles the story is the same : ice - worn , ice - scored rocks , perched blocks and scattered débris , prove that a vast glacier once welled up high against the pre- cipitous slopes on either hand ; for the marks extend ...
Pagina 24
... glen or ravine not more than about thirty yards across . " Below it there is a stony plain covered with the usual mixture of rounded and angular blocks . . . Among these , a short distance from the end of the glacier , and rather near ...
... glen or ravine not more than about thirty yards across . " Below it there is a stony plain covered with the usual mixture of rounded and angular blocks . . . Among these , a short distance from the end of the glacier , and rather near ...
Pagina 94
... Glen Spean , slope in general towards its bed rather steeply and equably . The roads , three in number , may be compared to ter- races on the hillsides , and are so singularly uniform in outline and level as to resemble at first sight ...
... Glen Spean , slope in general towards its bed rather steeply and equably . The roads , three in number , may be compared to ter- races on the hillsides , and are so singularly uniform in outline and level as to resemble at first sight ...
Pagina 95
... Glen Roy , the height of which is about 400 feet , that of the Bridge of Roy being about 310 feet . Similar terraces , though much less perfectly developed , occur in one or two neighbouring valleys ; the best , a single one , being in Glen ...
... Glen Roy , the height of which is about 400 feet , that of the Bridge of Roy being about 310 feet . Similar terraces , though much less perfectly developed , occur in one or two neighbouring valleys ; the best , a single one , being in Glen ...
Pagina 96
... glen . Suppose , now , that the level of the water was rather rapidly lowered , till it again paused for a long time in a like position with regard to the second road . As before , the newly deposited débris would be attacked , and the ...
... glen . Suppose , now , that the level of the water was rather rapidly lowered , till it again paused for a long time in a like position with regard to the second road . As before , the newly deposited débris would be attacked , and the ...
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Pagina 59 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many places several miles into the nea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs.