Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... became exceedingly striking , the muta- tions were so quick and so forcibly antithetical . I lay down upon a seat , and watched the intermittent extinction and generation of the clouds , and the al- ternate appearance and disappearance ...
... became exceedingly striking , the muta- tions were so quick and so forcibly antithetical . I lay down upon a seat , and watched the intermittent extinction and generation of the clouds , and the al- ternate appearance and disappearance ...
Pagina 7
... became more serene as we approached Lauterbrunnen . We had a brief evening stroll , but retired to bed before day had quite forsaken the mountains . At two A.M. the candle of Lauener gleamed 1860 ] 77 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
... became more serene as we approached Lauterbrunnen . We had a brief evening stroll , but retired to bed before day had quite forsaken the mountains . At two A.M. the candle of Lauener gleamed 1860 ] 77 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
Pagina 13
... became intensely cold . My companion had wisely pocketed a pair of socks , which he drew over his gloves , and found very comforting . My leather gloves , being saturated with wet , were very much the reverse . The wind was high , and ...
... became intensely cold . My companion had wisely pocketed a pair of socks , which he drew over his gloves , and found very comforting . My leather gloves , being saturated with wet , were very much the reverse . The wind was high , and ...
Pagina 14
... became suddenly flooded with the most splendid iridescences . ' At our right now was a vertical wall of brown rock , along the base of which we advanced . At times we were sheltered by it , but not always ; for the wind was as fitful as ...
... became suddenly flooded with the most splendid iridescences . ' At our right now was a vertical wall of brown rock , along the base of which we advanced . At times we were sheltered by it , but not always ; for the wind was as fitful as ...
Pagina 29
... became worse than ever ; a week elapsed before the measurement of the Aletsch glacier could be completed ; and we re- luctantly determined to dismiss Bennen , who was in waiting , considering the season too bad for high ascents , and to ...
... became worse than ever ; a week elapsed before the measurement of the Aletsch glacier could be completed ; and we re- luctantly determined to dismiss Bennen , who was in waiting , considering the season too bad for high ascents , and to ...
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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...