Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 51
... returning to his old haunts , finds a rise in the price even of niedl ' and mascarpa . ' 6 The day after our expedition Bennen and myself recrossed the Théodule in a heavy snow - storm . Tyndall started for Chamouni , for the weather ...
... returning to his old haunts , finds a rise in the price even of niedl ' and mascarpa . ' 6 The day after our expedition Bennen and myself recrossed the Théodule in a heavy snow - storm . Tyndall started for Chamouni , for the weather ...
Pagina 56
... returned to Chamouni . They were afterwards permitted to burn an hour below . Rejecting one candle , which gave a somewhat anomalous result , we found that the quantity con- sumed above was , within the limits of error , the same as ...
... returned to Chamouni . They were afterwards permitted to burn an hour below . Rejecting one candle , which gave a somewhat anomalous result , we found that the quantity con- sumed above was , within the limits of error , the same as ...
Pagina 92
... returned with it full of delicious milk . The effect of the milk was astonishing . It seemed to lubricate every atom of my body , and to exhilarate with its fragrance my brain . Two hours ' additional climbing brought us to our bivouac ...
... returned with it full of delicious milk . The effect of the milk was astonishing . It seemed to lubricate every atom of my body , and to exhilarate with its fragrance my brain . Two hours ' additional climbing brought us to our bivouac ...
Pagina 93
... returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to solidity in the ice and snow . The sound of it came booming up from the Vispbach , as it broke into foam ...
... returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to solidity in the ice and snow . The sound of it came booming up from the Vispbach , as it broke into foam ...
Pagina 114
... returned from a successful attempt upon the Lyskamm . On the 22nd quite a crowd of travellers crossed the Theodule Pass ; and , knowing that every corner of the hotel at Breuil would be taken up , I halted a day , so as to allow the ...
... returned from a successful attempt upon the Lyskamm . On the 22nd quite a crowd of travellers crossed the Theodule Pass ; and , knowing that every corner of the hotel at Breuil would be taken up , I halted a day , so as to allow the ...
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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...