Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... seen from edge to edge ; and across it was fixed in a straight line a series of twelve stakes . We afterwards ascended the glacier till we touched the avalanche - débris of the Heisse Platte . We wandered amid the moulins and cre ...
... seen from edge to edge ; and across it was fixed in a straight line a series of twelve stakes . We afterwards ascended the glacier till we touched the avalanche - débris of the Heisse Platte . We wandered amid the moulins and cre ...
Pagina 34
... seen distinctly huge icicles depend- ing from the crags , the lines of melting snow , and the dark patches which we hoped might spread a great deal faster than they were likely to , during the space of twenty - four hours . There was ...
... seen distinctly huge icicles depend- ing from the crags , the lines of melting snow , and the dark patches which we hoped might spread a great deal faster than they were likely to , during the space of twenty - four hours . There was ...
Pagina 40
... seen such astonishing masonry . The broad gneiss blocks are generally smooth and compact , with little ap- pearance of splintering or weathering . Tons of rock , in the shape of boulders , must fall almost daily down its sides , but the ...
... seen such astonishing masonry . The broad gneiss blocks are generally smooth and compact , with little ap- pearance of splintering or weathering . Tons of rock , in the shape of boulders , must fall almost daily down its sides , but the ...
Pagina 56
... seen at Chamouni . Lecomte's experi- ments on the alleged influence of light and rare- faction in retarding combustion caused me to resolve on making a series of experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake ...
... seen at Chamouni . Lecomte's experi- ments on the alleged influence of light and rare- faction in retarding combustion caused me to resolve on making a series of experiments on Mont Blanc . Dr. Frankland was kind enough to undertake ...
Pagina 60
... seen shining through translucent muslin , but even against it the brine beat as if it were a mere seaweed . I sat at rest , hovering fearfully on the verge of that doleful region , whose bourne most of those on board had already passed ...
... seen shining through translucent muslin , but even against it the brine beat as if it were a mere seaweed . I sat at rest , hovering fearfully on the verge of that doleful region , whose bourne most of those on board had already passed ...
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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...