Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... SOUND OF AGITATED WATER 65 VI . THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER 66 VII . THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN 75 → NOTE ON CLOUDS 82 • VIII . THE BEL ALP 86 IX . THE WEISSHORN 91 X. INSPECTION OF THE MATTERHORN WITH BENNEN 114 XI . OVER ...
... SOUND OF AGITATED WATER 65 VI . THE URBACHTHAL AND GAULI GLACIER 66 VII . THE GRIMSEL AND THE EGGISCHHORN 75 → NOTE ON CLOUDS 82 • VIII . THE BEL ALP 86 IX . THE WEISSHORN 91 X. INSPECTION OF THE MATTERHORN WITH BENNEN 114 XI . OVER ...
Pagina 36
... sound to be in the midst of innumerable rills of water , the effects of the late rains . The dark outline of the Matterhorn is just visible against the sky , and measuring with the eye the distance subtended by the height we have to ...
... sound to be in the midst of innumerable rills of water , the effects of the late rains . The dark outline of the Matterhorn is just visible against the sky , and measuring with the eye the distance subtended by the height we have to ...
Pagina 44
... sounds of human footsteps and voices grew fainter , I began to realise the height and the wonderful isolation of our position . The air was preternaturally still ; an occasional gust came eddying round the corner of the mountain , but ...
... sounds of human footsteps and voices grew fainter , I began to realise the height and the wonderful isolation of our position . The air was preternaturally still ; an occasional gust came eddying round the corner of the mountain , but ...
Pagina 57
... sound of a cracker , to which in acoustic treatises it is usually compared . It resembled more the sound produced by the expulsion of a cork from a champagne - bottle , but it was much louder . The sunrise from the summit was singularly ...
... sound of a cracker , to which in acoustic treatises it is usually compared . It resembled more the sound produced by the expulsion of a cork from a champagne - bottle , but it was much louder . The sunrise from the summit was singularly ...
Pagina 61
... sound . The communica- tion of this motion to the molecules of the brain produces the moral and intellectual effects just re- ferred to . Human action is only possible within a narrow zone of temperature . Transgress the limit on one ...
... sound . The communica- tion of this motion to the molecules of the brain produces the moral and intellectual effects just re- ferred to . Human action is only possible within a narrow zone of temperature . Transgress the limit on one ...
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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...