Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... GLACE 339 II . STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ICE 360 III . STRUCTURE OF GLACIERS 367 IV . HELMHOLTZ ON ICE AND GLACIERS V. CLOUDS 377 405 伯• VI . KILLARNEY 413 • • • VII . SNOWDON IN WINTER 421 VIII . VOYAGE TO ALGERIA TO OBSERVE THE ...
... GLACE 339 II . STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ICE 360 III . STRUCTURE OF GLACIERS 367 IV . HELMHOLTZ ON ICE AND GLACIERS V. CLOUDS 377 405 伯• VI . KILLARNEY 413 • • • VII . SNOWDON IN WINTER 421 VIII . VOYAGE TO ALGERIA TO OBSERVE THE ...
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... Glace to every tourist who visits the Jardin from Chamouni . The moulins can only form where the glacier is not much riven , as here alone the rivulets can acquire the requisite volume . to produce a moulin . After two hours ' ascent ...
... Glace to every tourist who visits the Jardin from Chamouni . The moulins can only form where the glacier is not much riven , as here alone the rivulets can acquire the requisite volume . to produce a moulin . After two hours ' ascent ...
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... Glace and its tributaries . We set out three lines across the Morteratsch glacier , one of which crossed the ice - stream near the well- known hut of the painter Georgei , while the two others were staked out , the one above the hut and ...
... Glace and its tributaries . We set out three lines across the Morteratsch glacier , one of which crossed the ice - stream near the well- known hut of the painter Georgei , while the two others were staked out , the one above the hut and ...
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... Glace are best seen by twilight . 6 We A gentleman had started in the morning to cross the col , accompanied by two strong guides . met a man returning from the Jardin , who told us that he had seen the party that preceded us ; that ...
... Glace are best seen by twilight . 6 We A gentleman had started in the morning to cross the col , accompanied by two strong guides . met a man returning from the Jardin , who told us that he had seen the party that preceded us ; that ...
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... Glace home to the Montanvert . Bloodshot eyes , burnt cheeks , and blistered lips were the result of the journey , but these soon disappeared , and fresh strength was gained for further action . The above account was written on the day ...
... Glace home to the Montanvert . Bloodshot eyes , burnt cheeks , and blistered lips were the result of the journey , but these soon disappeared , and fresh strength was gained for further action . The above account was written on the day ...
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alps appearance arête ascent atmosphere avalanche barrier base beautiful Bel Alp Bennen blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed dark deep descended erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed freezing frozen Glace Glacier du Géant gorge green Grindelwald halted heat heaven heights Helmholtz Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch Morteratsch glacier motion mould mountain névé night observed passed peak pieces of ice Pontresina portion precipice pressure rays reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round seemed séracs shadow side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface temperature theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical weather Weisshorn wind Zermatt
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Pagina 460 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Pagina 292 - Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home ? If so, had we not better recast our definitions of matter and force; for if life and thought be the very flower of both, any definition which omits life and thought must be inadequate, if not untrue.
Pagina 190 - Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky. It was he who raised aloft the waters which cut out these ravines; it was he who planted the glaciers on the...
Pagina 291 - I tried to look at this universal cloud, containing within itself the prediction of all that has since occurred ; I tried to imagine it as the seat of those forces whose action was to issue in solar and stellar systems, and all that they involve. Did that formless fog contain potentially the sadness with which I regarded 458 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. the Matterhorn ? Did the thought which now ran back to it simply return to its primeval home...