Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... cause of our subsequent success . The couloir was a most singular one ; it was excessively steep , and along it were two great scars , resembling the deep - cut channels of a mountain stream . They were , indeed , channels cut by the ...
... cause of our subsequent success . The couloir was a most singular one ; it was excessively steep , and along it were two great scars , resembling the deep - cut channels of a mountain stream . They were , indeed , channels cut by the ...
Pagina 24
... caused the destruction of the unfortunate Russian traveller on the Findelen Glacier last year , and to it I believe is to be ascribed the disastrous issue of the slip on the Col du Géant . Let me show cause for this pro- test . At a ...
... caused the destruction of the unfortunate Russian traveller on the Findelen Glacier last year , and to it I believe is to be ascribed the disastrous issue of the slip on the Col du Géant . Let me show cause for this pro- test . At a ...
Pagina 56
... caused me to resolve on making a series of experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake their execution . Six candles were chosen at Chamouni , and carefully weighed . All of them were permitted to burn for one ...
... caused me to resolve on making a series of experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake their execution . Six candles were chosen at Chamouni , and carefully weighed . All of them were permitted to burn for one ...
Pagina 65
... cause the murmur of streams and the sound of breakers appear to be almost exclusively due . The impact of water against water is a comparatively subordinate cause of the sound , and could never of itself occasion the ' babble ' of a ...
... cause the murmur of streams and the sound of breakers appear to be almost exclusively due . The impact of water against water is a comparatively subordinate cause of the sound , and could never of itself occasion the ' babble ' of a ...
Pagina 66
... causes , and the weaker minds , unable to restrain their longing , often barter , for the most sorry theoretic pottage , the truth which patient enquiry would make their own . This proneness of the human mind to jump to conclusions ...
... causes , and the weaker minds , unable to restrain their longing , often barter , for the most sorry theoretic pottage , the truth which patient enquiry would make their own . This proneness of the human mind to jump to conclusions ...
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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...