Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 2
... once more to go . I wrote to my former guide , Christian Lauener , desiring him to meet me at Thun on Saturday the 4th of August ; and on my way thither I fortunately fell in with Mr. Vaughan Hawkins . He told me of his plans and wishes ...
... once more to go . I wrote to my former guide , Christian Lauener , desiring him to meet me at Thun on Saturday the 4th of August ; and on my way thither I fortunately fell in with Mr. Vaughan Hawkins . He told me of his plans and wishes ...
Pagina 4
... Once , indeed , I deviated from the road out of pure disgust , and , taking a jumping torrent for my guide and colloquist , was led astray . I now resolved to return to Grindelwald by another route . My host at first threw cold water on ...
... Once , indeed , I deviated from the road out of pure disgust , and , taking a jumping torrent for my guide and colloquist , was led astray . I now resolved to return to Grindelwald by another route . My host at first threw cold water on ...
Pagina 8
... once , dressed , de- spatched our hasty breakfast , strapped our things into the smallest possible volume , and between three and four A.M. were on our way . The hidden sun crim- soned faintly the eastern sky , but the valleys were all ...
... once , dressed , de- spatched our hasty breakfast , strapped our things into the smallest possible volume , and between three and four A.M. were on our way . The hidden sun crim- soned faintly the eastern sky , but the valleys were all ...
Pagina 11
... once more doggedly strikes his axe into the snow , and resumes the ascent . I continued among the rocks , though with less and less confidence in the wisdom of my choice . My knapsack annoyed me excessively ; the straps frayed my ...
... once more doggedly strikes his axe into the snow , and resumes the ascent . I continued among the rocks , though with less and less confidence in the wisdom of my choice . My knapsack annoyed me excessively ; the straps frayed my ...
Pagina 12
John Tyndall. Once or twice I had to get round a protruding face of rock , and then found my bonds very grievous . At length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of ...
John Tyndall. Once or twice I had to get round a protruding face of rock , and then found my bonds very grievous . At length I came to a peculiar piece of cliff , near the base of which was a sharp ridge of snow , and at a height of ...
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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...