Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... - twenty years , he needs no assurance . Still , for the pleasure it gives myself , I connect this volume with the name of THOMAS ARCHER HIRST . May 1871 . J. TYNDALL . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE LAUWINEN - THOR PAGE 1 viii PREFACE .
... - twenty years , he needs no assurance . Still , for the pleasure it gives myself , I connect this volume with the name of THOMAS ARCHER HIRST . May 1871 . J. TYNDALL . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE LAUWINEN - THOR PAGE 1 viii PREFACE .
Pagina 30
... give Bennen his chance : the theodolite was packed up and despatched to Geneva , and we set off for Breuil , to try the Matterhorn . Accessible or not , however , the Mont Cervin is assuredly a different sort of affair from Mont Blanc ...
... give Bennen his chance : the theodolite was packed up and despatched to Geneva , and we set off for Breuil , to try the Matterhorn . Accessible or not , however , the Mont Cervin is assuredly a different sort of affair from Mont Blanc ...
Pagina 38
... gives an approving nod : he looks with indulgent pity on Carrel , but snubs all remarks of his as to the route . Er weiss gar nichts , ' he says . Carrel takes his axe , and mounts warily , but with good courage ; presently he returns ...
... gives an approving nod : he looks with indulgent pity on Carrel , but snubs all remarks of his as to the route . Er weiss gar nichts , ' he says . Carrel takes his axe , and mounts warily , but with good courage ; presently he returns ...
Pagina 42
... gives way , and down comes my weight upon the rope : - a stout haul from above , and now one knee is upon the edge , and I am safe : Carrel is pulled up after me . After a time , we get off the rocks , and mount a slope of ice , which ...
... gives way , and down comes my weight upon the rope : - a stout haul from above , and now one knee is upon the edge , and I am safe : Carrel is pulled up after me . After a time , we get off the rocks , and mount a slope of ice , which ...
Pagina 43
... give up hopes ; and Tyndall said he would give no opinion either way ; so we again moved on . At length we came to the base of a mighty knob , huger and uglier than its fellows , to which a little arête of snow served as a sort of ...
... give up hopes ; and Tyndall said he would give no opinion either way ; so we again moved on . At length we came to the base of a mighty knob , huger and uglier than its fellows , to which a little arête of snow served as a sort 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...