Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... minutes further wading through the deep snow placed us fairly on the summit of the col . 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 ...
... minutes further wading through the deep snow placed us fairly on the summit of the col . 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 ...
Pagina 37
... minutes we stop , and rope all together , in which state we continued the whole day . The prudence of this some may possibly doubt , as there were certainly places where the chances were greater that if one fell , he would drag down the ...
... minutes we stop , and rope all together , in which state we continued the whole day . The prudence of this some may possibly doubt , as there were certainly places where the chances were greater that if one fell , he would drag down the ...
Pagina 47
... minutes longer , I called out to Tyndall to know how soon they meant to be back . hour and a half , ' he replied , whether in jest or earnest , and they disappeared round a projecting corner . A sudden qualm seized me , and for a few ...
... minutes longer , I called out to Tyndall to know how soon they meant to be back . hour and a half , ' he replied , whether in jest or earnest , and they disappeared round a projecting corner . A sudden qualm seized me , and for a few ...
Pagina 83
... minutes in the experimental tube , resting , as they slowly dissolve , upon its bottom like a heap of snow . The particles of other clouds are trailed through the experimental tube as if they were moving through a viscous medium ...
... minutes in the experimental tube , resting , as they slowly dissolve , upon its bottom like a heap of snow . The particles of other clouds are trailed through the experimental tube as if they were moving through a viscous medium ...
Pagina 89
... minutes to chase away my timidity , and as the wind blew more forcibly against me , I clung with greater fixity to the tree . In this wild spot , and alone , I watched the dying fires of the day , until the latest glow had vanished from ...
... minutes to chase away my timidity , and as the wind blew more forcibly against me , I clung with greater fixity to the tree . In this wild spot , and alone , I watched the dying fires of the day , until the latest glow had vanished from ...
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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...