Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... direction of Grindel- wald , I took the bearing of the place , and scampered over slopes of snow to the sunny Alp beyond them . To my left was a mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted ...
... direction of Grindel- wald , I took the bearing of the place , and scampered over slopes of snow to the sunny Alp beyond them . To my left was a mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted ...
Pagina 77
... direction , we at length strike the mighty spurs of the Finsteraarhorn , between two of which lies the Oberaar glacier . Here is no turmoil of crevasses , no fantastic ice - pinnacles , nothing to indicate the operation of those tremen ...
... direction , we at length strike the mighty spurs of the Finsteraarhorn , between two of which lies the Oberaar glacier . Here is no turmoil of crevasses , no fantastic ice - pinnacles , nothing to indicate the operation of those tremen ...
Pagina 83
... directions when precipitation actually sets in . Every cloud - particle has consumed a polyhedron of vapour in its formation ; and it is manifest that the size of the particle must depend , not only on the size of the vapour polyhedron ...
... directions when precipitation actually sets in . Every cloud - particle has consumed a polyhedron of vapour in its formation ; and it is manifest that the size of the particle must depend , not only on the size of the vapour polyhedron ...
Pagina 126
John Tyndall. of friends in advance contributed strongly to draw me on in this direction . Onward then we went through the soft green meadows , with the river sounding to our right . The sun showered gold upon the pines , and brought ...
John Tyndall. of friends in advance contributed strongly to draw me on in this direction . Onward then we went through the soft green meadows , with the river sounding to our right . The sun showered gold upon the pines , and brought ...
Pagina 130
... direction , and rose straight , tall , and mastlike , without lateral branches . We reached a great moraine , grey with years , and clothed with magnificent pines ; our way lay up it , and from the top we dropped into a little dell of ...
... direction , and rose straight , tall , and mastlike , without lateral branches . We reached a great moraine , grey with years , and clothed with magnificent pines ; our way lay up it , and from the top we dropped into a little dell of ...
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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...