Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... turned his knowledge to account on the glaciers of the Alps , occurs frequently in the following pages . Of the firmness of a friendship , uninterrupted for an hour , and only strengthened by the weathering of six - and - twenty years ...
... turned his knowledge to account on the glaciers of the Alps , occurs frequently in the following pages . Of the firmness of a friendship , uninterrupted for an hour , and only strengthened by the weathering of six - and - twenty years ...
Pagina 9
... turned towards it , and had each a refreshing draught . Lauener pointed out to us the remains of the hut erected by him and his brother when they attempted the Jungfrau , and from which they were driven by adverse weather . We entered ...
... turned towards it , and had each a refreshing draught . Lauener pointed out to us the remains of the hut erected by him and his brother when they attempted the Jungfrau , and from which they were driven by adverse weather . We entered ...
Pagina 10
... turned our eyes on the rocks to our right , which seemed practicable , though very steep ; we swerved towards them , and worked laboriously upwards for three - quarters of an hour . Mr. Hawkins and the two guides then turned to the left ...
... turned our eyes on the rocks to our right , which seemed practicable , though very steep ; we swerved towards them , and worked laboriously upwards for three - quarters of an hour . Mr. Hawkins and the two guides then turned to the left ...
Pagina 11
... turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with the theodolite , and thus so lighten our burdens as to be able to proceed . Kaufmann volunteers to ...
... turned the day against us . I cast about in my mind to meet the difficulty , and enquire whether we might not send one of them back with the theodolite , and thus so lighten our burdens as to be able to proceed . Kaufmann volunteers to ...
Pagina 25
... turned promptly on his face , pierced with his armed staff the superficial layer of soft snow , and pressed with both hands the spike into the consolidated mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to ...
... turned promptly on his face , pierced with his armed staff the superficial layer of soft snow , and pressed with both hands the spike into the consolidated mass underneath . He would thus have applied a break , sufficient not only to ...
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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...