Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... avalanche - débris of the Heisse Platte . We wandered amid the moulins and cre- vasses until evening approached , and thus gradually prepared our muscles for more arduous work . On Tuesday a sleety rain filled the entire air , and 1860 ...
... avalanche - débris of the Heisse Platte . We wandered amid the moulins and cre- vasses until evening approached , and thus gradually prepared our muscles for more arduous work . On Tuesday a sleety rain filled the entire air , and 1860 ...
Pagina 21
... avalanche . In connection with this point M. Curie writes to me thus : Il paraît qu'à Chamounix on répand le bruit que c'est une avalanche qui a fait périr les voyageurs . C'est là une fausseté que le premier vous [ 860 ] 21 . DISASTER ...
... avalanche . In connection with this point M. Curie writes to me thus : Il paraît qu'à Chamounix on répand le bruit que c'est une avalanche qui a fait périr les voyageurs . C'est là une fausseté que le premier vous [ 860 ] 21 . DISASTER ...
Pagina 22
... avalanche properly so called there was not , and it simply leads to misconception to introduce the term at all . We are now prepared to discuss the accident . The travellers , it is alleged , reached the summit of the col in a state of ...
... avalanche properly so called there was not , and it simply leads to misconception to introduce the term at all . We are now prepared to discuss the accident . The travellers , it is alleged , reached the summit of the col in a state of ...
Pagina 33
... avalanche . ' 1 As Bennen and Tyndall were going up the Finsteraarhorn once upon a time , the work being severe , Bennen turned round and said to Tyndall , Ich fühle mich jetzt ganz wie der Tyroler einmal , ' and went on to relate a ...
... avalanche . ' 1 As Bennen and Tyndall were going up the Finsteraarhorn once upon a time , the work being severe , Bennen turned round and said to Tyndall , Ich fühle mich jetzt ganz wie der Tyroler einmal , ' and went on to relate a ...
Pagina 49
... avalanche . Six paces to the right , then again to the left ; we are at the mercy of those overhang- ing rocks just now , and the recent tracks of stones look rather suspicious ; but all is silent , and soon we gain confidence , and ...
... avalanche . Six paces to the right , then again to the left ; we are at the mercy of those overhang- ing rocks just now , and the recent tracks of stones look rather suspicious ; but all is silent , and soon we gain confidence , and ...
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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...