Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... LAKES . 255 XXIII . ASCENT OF THE EIGER AND PASSAGE OF THE TRIFT 265 XXIV . THE MATTERHORN - THIRD AND LAST ASSAULT 271 XXV . ASCENT OF THE ALETSCHHORN 295 XXVI . A DAY AMONG THE SÉRACS OF THE GLACIER DU GÉANT FOURTEEN YEARS AGO . 318 ...
... LAKES . 255 XXIII . ASCENT OF THE EIGER AND PASSAGE OF THE TRIFT 265 XXIV . THE MATTERHORN - THIRD AND LAST ASSAULT 271 XXV . ASCENT OF THE ALETSCHHORN 295 XXVI . A DAY AMONG THE SÉRACS OF THE GLACIER DU GÉANT FOURTEEN YEARS AGO . 318 ...
Pagina 1
... lakes was too moist and warm for my temperament , and I longed for that keener air which derives its tone from contact with the Alpine snows . In 1859 I had bidden the Alps farewell , purposing in future to steep my thoughts in the ...
... lakes was too moist and warm for my temperament , and I longed for that keener air which derives its tone from contact with the Alpine snows . In 1859 I had bidden the Alps farewell , purposing in future to steep my thoughts in the ...
Pagina 63
... , of Laax , in the valley of the Rhone , the strongest limb and stoutest heart of my acquaint- ance in the Alps . We took the steamer to Interlaken , and while we were on the lake the heavens again 1861 ] 63 A LETTER FROM BÂLE .
... , of Laax , in the valley of the Rhone , the strongest limb and stoutest heart of my acquaint- ance in the Alps . We took the steamer to Interlaken , and while we were on the lake the heavens again 1861 ] 63 A LETTER FROM BÂLE .
Pagina 64
... 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 beauty in the tranquil evening light . The bridge of Brientz had been ...
... 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 beauty in the tranquil evening light . The bridge of Brientz had been ...
Pagina 67
... 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 they dash , and gradually eat their way so as to ...
... 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 they dash , and gradually eat their way so as 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...