Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the track and wandered for a time bewildered . We sat down to rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To quell the pangs of toothache he had chewed a cigar , which ...
... darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the track and wandered for a time bewildered . We sat down to rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To quell the pangs of toothache he had chewed a cigar , which ...
Pagina 34
... dark patches which we hoped might spread a great deal faster than they were likely to , during the space of twenty - four hours . There was nothing for it , although our prospects of success were materially diminished by the snow , but ...
... dark patches which we hoped might spread a great deal faster than they were likely to , during the space of twenty - four hours . There was nothing for it , although our prospects of success were materially diminished by the snow , but ...
Pagina 36
... darkness we seem from the sound to be in the midst of innumerable rills of water , the effects of the late rains . The dark outline of the Matterhorn is just visible against the sky , and measuring with the eye the distance subtended by ...
... darkness we seem from the sound to be in the midst of innumerable rills of water , the effects of the late rains . The dark outline of the Matterhorn is just visible against the sky , and measuring with the eye the distance subtended by ...
Pagina 45
... dark rocks and dead - white snow . We had risen seemingly to an immense height above the gap , and the ridge which stretches from the Matterhorn to the Dent d'Erin lay flat below ; but the peak still towered behind me , and , measuring ...
... dark rocks and dead - white snow . We had risen seemingly to an immense height above the gap , and the ridge which stretches from the Matterhorn to the Dent d'Erin lay flat below ; but the peak still towered behind me , and , measuring ...
Pagina 64
... darkness was intense , and the intermittent glare corespond- ingly impressive . Sometimes the lightning seemed to burst , like a fireball , midway between the horizon and the zenith , spreading a vast glory behind the clouds and ...
... darkness was intense , and the intermittent glare corespond- ingly impressive . Sometimes the lightning seemed to burst , like a fireball , midway between the horizon and the zenith , spreading a vast glory behind the clouds and ...
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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...