Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... carry the legs , and I should bear my own knapsack . He yielded . Ulrich Lauener was at Grindelwald when we started for Lauterbrunnen , and on bidding us good - bye he remarked that we were going to attempt an impossibility . He had ...
... carry the legs , and I should bear my own knapsack . He yielded . Ulrich Lauener was at Grindelwald when we started for Lauterbrunnen , and on bidding us good - bye he remarked that we were going to attempt an impossibility . He had ...
Pagina 13
... Mr. Hawkins , if not at his suggestion , I have given to the pass . [ The name has since been adopted in all the maps . March 1871. ] afterwards carried away . The clouds thus generated shone for 2 1860 ] 13 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
... Mr. Hawkins , if not at his suggestion , I have given to the pass . [ The name has since been adopted in all the maps . March 1871. ] afterwards carried away . The clouds thus generated shone for 2 1860 ] 13 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
Pagina 14
John Tyndall. afterwards carried away . The clouds thus generated shone for a time with the lustre of pearls ; but as they approached the sun they became suddenly flooded with the most splendid iridescences . ' At our right now was a ...
John Tyndall. afterwards carried away . The clouds thus generated shone for a time with the lustre of pearls ; but as they approached the sun they became suddenly flooded with the most splendid iridescences . ' At our right now was a ...
Pagina 21
... carried down by an 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 ...
... carried down by an 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 ...
Pagina 22
... carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of them were rush- ing downwards . What efforts were made to check this fearful rush , at what point of the descent the two guides relinquished the rope , which of them gave 22 ...
... carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of them were rush- ing downwards . What efforts were made to check this fearful rush , at what point of the descent the two guides relinquished the rope , which of them gave 22 ...
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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...