Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... slopes of snow to the sunny Alp beyond them . To my left was a mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted aside to climb a rounded eminence , where I lay for an hour watching the augmenting ...
... slopes of snow to the sunny Alp beyond them . To my left was a mountain stream making soft music by the explosion of its bubbles . I was once tempted aside to climb a rounded eminence , where I lay for an hour watching the augmenting ...
Pagina 5
... slope of the mountain , which , at times , was quite precipitous ; but the roots of the pines grasping the rocks afforded hand and foot such hold as to render the steepest places the pleasantest of all . I often emerged from the gloom ...
... slope of the mountain , which , at times , was quite precipitous ; but the roots of the pines grasping the rocks afforded hand and foot such hold as to render the steepest places the pleasantest of all . I often emerged from the gloom ...
Pagina 8
... slope of the hill . The dawn cheerfully unlocked the recesses of the mountains , and we soon quitted the gloom of the woods for the bright green Alp . This we breasted , regardless of the path , until we reached the chalets of the ...
... slope of the hill . The dawn cheerfully unlocked the recesses of the mountains , and we soon quitted the gloom of the woods for the bright green Alp . This we breasted , regardless of the path , until we reached the chalets of the ...
Pagina 14
... slope of compact ice . The men were very weary , the hewing of the steps exhausting , and the footing , particularly on some glazed rocks over which we had to pass , exceedingly insecure . Once on trying to fix my alpenstock I found ...
... slope of compact ice . The men were very weary , the hewing of the steps exhausting , and the footing , particularly on some glazed rocks over which we had to pass , exceedingly insecure . Once on trying to fix my alpenstock I found ...
Pagina 15
... slope . Several times during our descent the snow coating was perforated , and hidden crevasses revealed . At length we reached the glacier , and plodded along it through the dreary fog . We cleared the ice just at nightfall , passed ...
... slope . Several times during our descent the snow coating was perforated , and hidden crevasses revealed . At length we reached the glacier , and plodded along it through the dreary fog . We cleared the ice just at nightfall , 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...