Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... reached the chalets of the Roththal . We did not yet see the par- ticular staircase up which Lauener proposed to lead us , but we inspected minutely the battlements to our right , marking places for future attack in case our present ...
... reached the chalets of the Roththal . We did not yet see the par- ticular staircase up which Lauener proposed to lead us , but we inspected minutely the battlements to our right , marking places for future attack in case our present ...
Pagina 15
... reached the base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours consequently had been spent upon that tremendous wall . Our view was limited above ; clouds were on all the mountains , and the Great Aletsch ...
... reached the base of the barrier at nine A.M .; we had sur- mounted it at four ; seven hours consequently had been spent upon that tremendous wall . Our view was limited above ; clouds were on all the mountains , and the Great Aletsch ...
Pagina 18
... reached us of a grievous disaster which had occurred on the Col du Géant . At first , however , the accounts were so con- , tradictory as to inspire the hope that they might be grossly exaggerated or altogether false . But more definite ...
... reached us of a grievous disaster which had occurred on the Col du Géant . At first , however , the accounts were so con- , tradictory as to inspire the hope that they might be grossly exaggerated or altogether false . But more definite ...
Pagina 19
... reached the place where the rocks ended and the fatal snow- slope began . Among the rocks we had frequent and melancholy occasion to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic ...
... reached the place where the rocks ended and the fatal snow- slope began . Among the rocks we had frequent and melancholy occasion to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic ...
Pagina 20
... reached this place , and to avoid the roughness of the ridge they took to the snow . The inclination of the slope above was moderate ; it steepened considerably lower down , but its steepest portion did not much exceed forty- five ...
... reached this place , and to avoid the roughness of the ridge they took to the snow . The inclination of the slope above was moderate ; it steepened considerably lower down , but its steepest portion did not much exceed forty- five ...
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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...