Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal , along the lateral mɔraine of which our route lay . , Just as we touched the snow a spring bubbled from B [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal , along the lateral mɔraine of which our route lay . , Just as we touched the snow a spring bubbled from B [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
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... base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously ...
... base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously ...
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... base of which we advanced . At times we were sheltered by it , but not always ; for the wind was as fitful as a maniac , and eddying round the corners sometimes shook us forcibly , chilled us to the mar- row , and spit frozen dust in ...
... base of which we advanced . At times we were sheltered by it , but not always ; for the wind was as fitful as a maniac , and eddying round the corners sometimes shook us forcibly , chilled us to the mar- row , and spit frozen dust in ...
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... base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours consequently had been spent upon that tremendous wall . Our view was limited above ; clouds were on all the mountains , and the Great Aletsch glacier was ...
... base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours consequently had been spent upon that tremendous wall . Our view was limited above ; clouds were on all the mountains , and the Great Aletsch glacier was ...
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... base of the rocky couloir along which the travellers had been preci- pitated , and which had been described to me as so dangerous that a chamois - hunter had declined ascending it some days before . At Courmayeur , however , I secured ...
... base of the rocky couloir along which the travellers had been preci- pitated , and which had been described to me as so dangerous that a chamois - hunter had declined ascending it some days before . At Courmayeur , however , I secured ...
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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...