Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... OBSERVATIONS ON THE MER DE GLACE 339 II . STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ICE 360 III . STRUCTURE OF GLACIERS 367 IV ... OBSERVE THE ECLIPSE 429 • ILLUSTRATIONS . THE JUNGFRAU FROM INTERLAKEN Frontispiece ASCENT OF THE X CONTENTS .
... OBSERVATIONS ON THE MER DE GLACE 339 II . STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF ICE 360 III . STRUCTURE OF GLACIERS 367 IV ... OBSERVE THE ECLIPSE 429 • ILLUSTRATIONS . THE JUNGFRAU FROM INTERLAKEN Frontispiece ASCENT OF THE X CONTENTS .
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... observed the grey haze creeping down from the peak of the Breithorn to the point at which we were aiming . This , however , was visibly nearer ; and , for the first time since we began to climb , Lauener declared that he had good See ...
... observed the grey haze creeping down from the peak of the Breithorn to the point at which we were aiming . This , however , was visibly nearer ; and , for the first time since we began to climb , Lauener declared that he had good See ...
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... observations and measurements on the Aletsch glacier , and joining together afterwards in that day's excursion - unparalleled in my experience - which has found in my companion a narrator worthy of its glories . And as we stood upon the ...
... observations and measurements on the Aletsch glacier , and joining together afterwards in that day's excursion - unparalleled in my experience - which has found in my companion a narrator worthy of its glories . And as we stood upon the ...
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... observations on his part ; on mine , the exploration of new passes and mountain topography ; but the weather sadly interfered with these designs . After some glacier measurements had been accom- plished at Grindelwald , a short spell of ...
... observations on his part ; on mine , the exploration of new passes and mountain topography ; but the weather sadly interfered with these designs . After some glacier measurements had been accom- plished at Grindelwald , a short spell of ...
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... observed in any man of the kind , and which makes him , in his way , a sort of Garibaldi . Tyndall , on the day of our expedition , said to him , ' Sie sind der Garibaldi der Führer , Bennen ; ' to which he answered in his simple way ...
... observed in any man of the kind , and which makes him , in his way , a sort of Garibaldi . Tyndall , on the day of our expedition , said to him , ' Sie sind der Garibaldi der Führer , Bennen ; ' to which he answered in his simple way ...
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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...