Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... Looked at from the top the pass will seem very formidable to the best of climbers ; to an ordinary eye it would appear simply terrific . We reached the base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours ...
... Looked at from the top the pass will seem very formidable to the best of climbers ; to an ordinary eye it would appear simply terrific . We reached the base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours ...
Pagina 17
... looked less formidable than it otherwise might have done . From Courmayeur I worked round to Cha- mouni by Chapieu and the Col de Bonhomme . I attempted to get up Mont Blanc to visit the thermometers which I had planted on the summit a ...
... looked less formidable than it otherwise might have done . From Courmayeur I worked round to Cha- mouni by Chapieu and the Col de Bonhomme . I attempted to get up Mont Blanc to visit the thermometers which I had planted on the summit a ...
Pagina 46
... looked , an ominous visitant appeared : down came a fragment of rock , the size of a man's body , and dashed past me on the couloir , sending the snow flying . For a moment I thought they might have dislodged it ; but looking again I ...
... looked , an ominous visitant appeared : down came a fragment of rock , the size of a man's body , and dashed past me on the couloir , sending the snow flying . For a moment I thought they might have dislodged it ; but looking again I ...
Pagina 57
... looked very like mutiny , showed itself on the part of some of my men . Its manifestation was slight , I must say , in most cases , and conspicuous only in one . Regrets and apologies followed , and due allowance ought to be made for ...
... looked very like mutiny , showed itself on the part of some of my men . Its manifestation was slight , I must say , in most cases , and conspicuous only in one . Regrets and apologies followed , and due allowance ought to be made for ...
Pagina 88
... looked like waterspouts , so dense was their texture . Furious as was the descending shower , hard as we were hit by the mixed pellets of ice and water , I enjoyed the scene . Grandly the cloud - besom swept the mountains , their ...
... looked like waterspouts , so dense was their texture . Furious as was the descending shower , hard as we were hit by the mixed pellets of ice and water , I enjoyed the scene . Grandly the cloud - besom swept the mountains , their ...
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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...