Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 11
... length calls out to me , ' I think it is impossible . ' The effect of Ulrich's pre- diction appears to be cropping out ; we expostulate , however , and they move on . After some time they halt again , and reiterate their opinion that ...
... length calls out to me , ' I think it is impossible . ' The effect of Ulrich's pre- diction appears to be cropping out ; we expostulate , however , and they move on . After some time they halt again , and reiterate their opinion that ...
Pagina 12
... length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ...
... length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of about five feet above it the rock bulged out , so that a stone dropped from its pro- tuberance would fall beyond the ...
Pagina 15
... length we reached the glacier , and plodded along it through the dreary fog . We cleared the ice just at nightfall , passed the Märjelin See , and soon found ourselves in utter darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the ...
... length we reached the glacier , and plodded along it through the dreary fog . We cleared the ice just at nightfall , passed the Märjelin See , and soon found ourselves in utter darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the ...
Pagina 22
... length the fatal slip occurred , where the fallen man , before he could be arrested , gathered sufficient momentum to jerk the man behind him off his feet , the other men were carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of ...
... length the fatal slip occurred , where the fallen man , before he could be arrested , gathered sufficient momentum to jerk the man behind him off his feet , the other men were carried away in succes- sion , and in a moment the whole of ...
Pagina 38
... length we stop upon a ledge where all can stand together , and Carrel proposes to us ( for Bennen and he can only commu- nicate by signs , the one knowing only French , the other German ) to go on and see whether an easier way can be ...
... length we stop upon a ledge where all can stand together , and Carrel proposes to us ( for Bennen and he can only commu- nicate by signs , the one knowing only French , the other German ) to go on and see whether an easier way can be ...
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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...