Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 23
... forming the summit of a precipice , rose slightly above the level of the snow , and over it they were tilted . I do not think a single second's suffering could have been endured . During the wild rush downwards the be- wilderment was ...
... forming the summit of a precipice , rose slightly above the level of the snow , and over it they were tilted . I do not think a single second's suffering could have been endured . During the wild rush downwards the be- wilderment was ...
Pagina 64
... formed parallel bars of extraordinary radiance escaped across the lake . On reaching Interlaken I drove to the steamer on the lake of Brientz . We started at 6 P.M. , with a purified atmosphere , and passed through scenes of serene ...
... formed parallel bars of extraordinary radiance escaped across the lake . On reaching Interlaken I drove to the steamer on the lake of Brientz . We started at 6 P.M. , with a purified atmosphere , and passed through scenes of serene ...
Pagina 67
... formed ? Is it not composed of the sediment of a lake ? Did not the Kirchet form the dam of this lake , a stream issuing from the latter and falling over the dam ? And as the sea - waves find a weak point in the cliffs against which ...
... formed ? Is it not composed of the sediment of a lake ? Did not the Kirchet form the dam of this lake , a stream issuing from the latter and falling over the dam ? And as the sea - waves find a weak point in the cliffs against which ...
Pagina 71
... formed had broken away from the upper , which still clung to the rocks , the whole ridge being thus defended by a profound chasm , called in Switzerland a Bergschrund . At some places por- tions of snow had fallen away from the upper ...
... formed had broken away from the upper , which still clung to the rocks , the whole ridge being thus defended by a profound chasm , called in Switzerland a Bergschrund . At some places por- tions of snow had fallen away from the upper ...
Pagina 72
... formed the top of a kind of chimney or funnel in the rocks , which led right down to the Lauteraar glacier . Elated with our success , I released myself from the rope and sprang down the chimney , preventing the descent from quicken ...
... formed the top of a kind of chimney or funnel in the rocks , which led right down to the Lauteraar glacier . Elated with our success , I released myself from the rope and sprang down the chimney , preventing the descent from quicken ...
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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...