Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... halted for a day at Thun , had arrived ; our guide had prepared a number of stakes , and on Monday morning we mounted our theodolite and proceeded to the Lower Glacier . With some difficulty we established the instrument upon a site ...
... halted for a day at Thun , had arrived ; our guide had prepared a number of stakes , and on Monday morning we mounted our theodolite and proceeded to the Lower Glacier . With some difficulty we established the instrument upon a site ...
Pagina 98
... halted , and , looking back , saw two moving objects on the glacier below us . At first we took them to be chamois , but they were men . The leader carried an axe , and his companion a knapsack and an alpenstock . They followed our ...
... halted , and , looking back , saw two moving objects on the glacier below us . At first we took them to be chamois , but they were men . The leader carried an axe , and his companion a knapsack and an alpenstock . They followed our ...
Pagina 101
... halted at intervals where the melted snow formed liquid veins , and quenched our thirst . A bottle of cham- pagne , poured sparingly into our goblets over a little snow , furnished Wenger and myself with many a refreshing draught ...
... halted at intervals where the melted snow formed liquid veins , and quenched our thirst . A bottle of cham- pagne , poured sparingly into our goblets over a little snow , furnished Wenger and myself with many a refreshing draught ...
Pagina 114
... halted a day , so as to allow the people to disperse . Breuil commands a view of the southern side of the Matter- horn ; and it was now an object with me to discover , if possible , upon the true peak of this formidable mountain , some ...
... halted a day , so as to allow the people to disperse . Breuil commands a view of the southern side of the Matter- horn ; and it was now an object with me to discover , if possible , upon the true peak of this formidable mountain , some ...
Pagina 120
... halted , sometimes passing him until a firm anchorage was gained , when it again became his turn to advance . Thus each of us waited 6 until the other could seize upon something capable of bearing the shock of a falling man . At some ...
... halted , sometimes passing him until a firm anchorage was gained , when it again became his turn to advance . Thus each of us waited 6 until the other could seize upon something capable of bearing the shock of a falling man . At some ...
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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...