Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... face page 1.1 91 THE WEISSHORN FROM THE RIFFEL THE MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN • THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 117 " " 149 201 219 Nature , thou ...
... face page 1.1 91 THE WEISSHORN FROM THE RIFFEL THE MATTERHORN ( from a drawing by E. W. Cooke , R. A. ) , RECOVERY OF OUR PORTER JOHANN JOSEPH BENNEN • THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS ( SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION ) 117 " " 149 201 219 Nature , thou ...
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John Tyndall. Once or twice I had to get round a protruding face of rock , and then found my bonds very grievous . At length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of ...
John Tyndall. Once or twice I had to get round a protruding face of rock , and then found my bonds very grievous . At length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of ...
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... face , pierced with his armed staff the superficial layer of soft snow , and pressed with both hands the spike into the consolidated mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to bring himself to rest ...
... face , pierced with his armed staff the superficial layer of soft snow , and pressed with both hands the spike into the consolidated mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to bring himself to rest ...
Pagina 34
... face , which are so well given in Mr. George Barnard's picture , were now almost covered up ; through the tele- scope could be seen distinctly huge icicles depend- ing from the crags , the lines of melting snow , and the dark patches ...
... face , which are so well given in Mr. George Barnard's picture , were now almost covered up ; through the tele- scope could be seen distinctly huge icicles depend- ing from the crags , the lines of melting snow , and the dark patches ...
Pagina 37
... face , and dig in hard with alpenstock in both hands under your body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can save you : you have lost all chance of helping ...
... face , and dig in hard with alpenstock in both hands under your body ; by this means you will stop yourself if it is possible . Once on your back , it is all over , unless others can save you : you have lost all chance of helping ...
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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...