Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... mass of bone ; his legs are out of proportion , longer than his trunk ; and he wears a short - tail coat , which augments the apparent dis- crepancy . Those massive levers were now plied with extraordinary vigour to project his body ...
... mass of bone ; his legs are out of proportion , longer than his trunk ; and he wears a short - tail coat , which augments the apparent dis- crepancy . Those massive levers were now plied with extraordinary vigour to project his body ...
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... mass of our luggage sent to the Eggischhorn by a more easy route . I was loth to part with the theodolite , but Lauener at first grumbled hard against taking it . It was proposed , however , to confine his load to the head of the ...
... mass of our luggage sent to the Eggischhorn by a more easy route . I was loth to part with the theodolite , but Lauener at first grumbled hard against taking it . It was proposed , however , to confine his load to the head of the ...
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... mass ; the snow was evidently that of avalanches which had been shot down the couloir , kneading themselves into vast balls , and piling themselves in heaps upon the plain . The gradient steepened , the snow was hard , and the axe was ...
... mass ; the snow was evidently that of avalanches which had been shot down the couloir , kneading themselves into vast balls , and piling themselves in heaps upon the plain . The gradient steepened , the snow was hard , and the axe was ...
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... mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to bring himself to rest , but , if well done , sufficient , I believe , to stop a second person . I do not lightly express this opinion it is founded on varied ...
... mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to bring himself to rest , but , if well done , sufficient , I believe , to stop a second person . I do not lightly express this opinion it is founded on varied ...
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... impressions of this , the hardest and strongest of all the mountain masses of the Alps ; its form is more remarkable than that of other mountains , not by chance , but because it 1860 ] 39 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
... impressions of this , the hardest and strongest of all the mountain masses of the Alps ; its form is more remarkable than that of other mountains , not by chance , but because it 1860 ] 39 THE MATTERHORN - FIRST ASSAULT .
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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...