Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 69
... climbed the wall of a cul de sac , and from its rim enjoyed a glorious view . The Urbachthal has been the scene of vast glacier action . Looking at these charactered cliffs , one's thoughts involuntarily revert to the ancient days , and ...
... climbed the wall of a cul de sac , and from its rim enjoyed a glorious view . The Urbachthal has been the scene of vast glacier action . Looking at these charactered cliffs , one's thoughts involuntarily revert to the ancient days , and ...
Pagina 73
... climbed them , and found myself upon the sum- mit of a ledged precipice , below which Bennen stood , watching me as I descended . On one of the ledges my foot slipped ; a most melancholy whine issued from my guide , as he suddenly moved ...
... climbed them , and found myself upon the sum- mit of a ledged precipice , below which Bennen stood , watching me as I descended . On one of the ledges my foot slipped ; a most melancholy whine issued from my guide , as he suddenly moved ...
Pagina 92
... climbed the slope I suffered from intense thirst . Water seemed powerless to quench the desire for drink . We reached a chalet , and at our request a smart young Senner caught up a pail , and soon returned with it full of delicious milk ...
... climbed the slope I suffered from intense thirst . Water seemed powerless to quench the desire for drink . We reached a chalet , and at our request a smart young Senner caught up a pail , and soon returned with it full of delicious milk ...
Pagina 118
... climbed the steep buttress of the spur and was soon in the fissure . Huge masses of rock were jammed into it , the presence of which gave variety to the exertion , calling forth strength , but not exciting fear . From the summit the ...
... climbed the steep buttress of the spur and was soon in the fissure . Huge masses of rock were jammed into it , the presence of which gave variety to the exertion , calling forth strength , but not exciting fear . From the summit the ...
Pagina 119
... climbed to the top of the cliff , but returned immediately with a flush of confidence in his eye . ' I will lead " I will lead you to the top , ' he said excitedly . Had I been free I should 6 have cried Bravo ! ' but in my position ...
... climbed to the top of the cliff , but returned immediately with a flush of confidence in his eye . ' I will lead " I will lead you to the top , ' he said excitedly . Had I been free I should 6 have cried Bravo ! ' but in my position ...
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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...