Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... into perfect contact by enormous pressure , rub away the asperities of the rocks over which for ages it was forced to slide . The rocks thus 1861 ] THE GRIMSEL AND THE ÆGGISCHHORN . 75 THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN →
... into perfect contact by enormous pressure , rub away the asperities of the rocks over which for ages it was forced to slide . The rocks thus 1861 ] THE GRIMSEL AND THE ÆGGISCHHORN . 75 THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN →
Pagina 76
... most beautifully laminated , the change being due to the pressure endured at the bottom of the fall . The wrinkling of the glacier here was quite visible , the dwindling of the 76 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... most beautifully laminated , the change being due to the pressure endured at the bottom of the fall . The wrinkling of the glacier here was quite visible , the dwindling of the 76 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
Pagina 99
... , nowever , came into play . He tried the snow by squeezing it with his foot , and to my astonishment began to cross it . Even after the pressure of his feet the space he had to stand on did not exceed 1861 ] 99 THE WEISSHORN .
... , nowever , came into play . He tried the snow by squeezing it with his foot , and to my astonishment began to cross it . Even after the pressure of his feet the space he had to stand on did not exceed 1861 ] 99 THE WEISSHORN .
Pagina 163
... pressure , but direct- ing their attention to a point at the base of the precipice , I asked them whether they could not reach that point without much risk . The reply was , ' Yes . ' ' Then , ' I said , ' let us go there . ' We moved ...
... pressure , but direct- ing their attention to a point at the base of the precipice , I asked them whether they could not reach that point without much risk . The reply was , ' Yes . ' ' Then , ' I said , ' let us go there . ' We moved ...
Pagina 168
... pressure , underwent that notable change , analogous to slaty cleavage , which caused the glacier to weather and gather dirt in parallel grooves , thus marking upon its surface the direction of its interior lamination . The ice ...
... pressure , underwent that notable change , analogous to slaty cleavage , which caused the glacier to weather and gather dirt in parallel grooves , thus marking upon its surface the direction of its interior lamination . The ice ...
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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...