Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... Lower Glacier . With some difficulty we established the instrument upon a site whence the glacier could be seen from edge to edge ; and across it was fixed in a straight line a series of twelve stakes . We afterwards ascended the ...
... Lower Glacier . With some difficulty we established the instrument upon a site whence the glacier could be seen from edge to edge ; and across it was fixed in a straight line a series of twelve stakes . We afterwards ascended the ...
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... lower down , but its steepest portion did not much exceed forty- five degrees of inclination . At all events , a skilful mountaineer might throw himself prostrate on the slope with perfect 20 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... lower down , but its steepest portion did not much exceed forty- five degrees of inclination . At all events , a skilful mountaineer might throw himself prostrate on the slope with perfect 20 [ 1860 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
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... lower Rhone valley was under water . A few weeks later , I found the Splügen , in the gorge above Chiavenna , alto- 1 Instead of attempting to write one myself , I requested the per- mission of my friend Mr. Hawkins to republish his ...
... lower Rhone valley was under water . A few weeks later , I found the Splügen , in the gorge above Chiavenna , alto- 1 Instead of attempting to write one myself , I requested the per- mission of my friend Mr. Hawkins to republish his ...
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... lower ; soon the difficulties diminish ; our gap appears in sight , and once more we reach the broad granite slab beside the narrow col , and breathe more freely . Two hours have brought us down thus far ; but if we are to return by the ...
... lower ; soon the difficulties diminish ; our gap appears in sight , and once more we reach the broad granite slab beside the narrow col , and breathe more freely . Two hours have brought us down thus far ; but if we are to return by the ...
Pagina 54
... lower strata of the atmosphere to the solar heat- rays . I therefore arranged a series of observations with the Abbé Veuillet , of Chamouni ; he was to operate in the valley , while I observed at the top . Our instruments were of the ...
... lower strata of the atmosphere to the solar heat- rays . I therefore arranged a series of observations with the Abbé Veuillet , of Chamouni ; he was to operate in the valley , while I observed at the top . Our instruments were of the ...
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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...