Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 61
... finally as a whole . Vainly we endeavoured to ward off the coming lethargy . Thought gradually slips away from its object , or the object glides out of the nerveless grasp of thought , and we are conquered by the heat . But what is heat ...
... finally as a whole . Vainly we endeavoured to ward off the coming lethargy . Thought gradually slips away from its object , or the object glides out of the nerveless grasp of thought , and we are conquered by the heat . But what is heat ...
Pagina 70
... finally decide . We enter upon the glacier ; black chasms yawn here and there through the super- incumbent snow , but there is no real difficulty . We cross the glacier and reach the opposite slopes ; our way first lies up a moraine ...
... finally decide . We enter upon the glacier ; black chasms yawn here and there through the super- incumbent snow , but there is no real difficulty . We cross the glacier and reach the opposite slopes ; our way first lies up a moraine ...
Pagina 86
... finally they were unlocked by thunder , and shook themselves down upon us in furious rain . The glacier is here cut up into oblique valleys of ice , subdivided by sharp - edged crevasses . We advanced swiftly along the ridges , but ...
... finally they were unlocked by thunder , and shook themselves down upon us in furious rain . The glacier is here cut up into oblique valleys of ice , subdivided by sharp - edged crevasses . We advanced swiftly along the ridges , but ...
Pagina 88
... into a beaten track , finally reached the pleasant auberge at which our journey ends . From the hotel on the slope of Eggischhorn an hour's ascent is required to place you in presence of 88 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... into a beaten track , finally reached the pleasant auberge at which our journey ends . From the hotel on the slope of Eggischhorn an hour's ascent is required to place you in presence of 88 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 93
... finally decided on the route to be pursued next morning , and with a chastened hope in both our breasts we returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to ...
... finally decided on the route to be pursued next morning , and with a chastened hope in both our breasts we returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to ...
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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...