Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... passed ; within it I could discern the brown visage of my guide . We pulled up and shout- ed , the other vehicle stopped , Lauener leaped from it , and came bounding towards me with admirable energy , through the deep and splashing mud ...
... passed ; within it I could discern the brown visage of my guide . We pulled up and shout- ed , the other vehicle stopped , Lauener leaped from it , and came bounding towards me with admirable energy , through the deep and splashing mud ...
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... passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal , along the lateral mɔraine of which our route lay . , Just as we touched the snow ...
... passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal , along the lateral mɔraine of which our route lay . , Just as we touched the snow ...
Pagina 11
... passed and the summit is not sensibly nearer . The men halt and converse together . Lauener at length calls out to me , ' I think it is impossible . ' The effect of Ulrich's pre- diction appears to be cropping out ; we expostulate ...
... passed and the summit is not sensibly nearer . The men halt and converse together . Lauener at length calls out to me , ' I think it is impossible . ' The effect of Ulrich's pre- diction appears to be cropping out ; we expostulate ...
Pagina 13
... passed the crest of the Breithorn its moisture was precipitated and 1 Hence the name ' Lauwinen - Thor , ' which , with the consent of Mr. Hawkins , if not at his suggestion , I have given to the pass . [ The name has since been adopted ...
... passed the crest of the Breithorn its moisture was precipitated and 1 Hence the name ' Lauwinen - Thor , ' which , with the consent of Mr. Hawkins , if not at his suggestion , I have given to the pass . [ The name has since been adopted ...
Pagina 15
... passed the Märjelin See , and soon found ourselves in utter darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the track and wandered for a time bewildered . We sat down to rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To ...
... passed the Märjelin See , and soon found ourselves in utter darkness on the spurs of the Æggischhorn . We lost the track and wandered for a time bewildered . We sat down to rest , and then learned that Lauener was extremely ill . To ...
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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...