Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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... valleys , and confine my mountain work to occasional excursions in the Scotch Highlands , or amid the Welsh and Cumbrian hills . But in my weariness the mere thought of the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; CHAPTER PAGE I ...
... valleys , and confine my mountain work to occasional excursions in the Scotch Highlands , or amid the Welsh and Cumbrian hills . But in my weariness the mere thought of the snow - peaks and glaciers was an exhilaration ; CHAPTER PAGE I ...
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... mountains , and with the consciousness of augmenting vigour I quitted my station , and galloped down the Alp . I was soon amid the pinewoods which overhang the valley of Grindelwald , HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS . [ 1860.
... mountains , and with the consciousness of augmenting vigour I quitted my station , and galloped down the Alp . I was soon amid the pinewoods which overhang the valley of Grindelwald , HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS . [ 1860.
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John Tyndall. amid the pinewoods which overhang the valley of Grindelwald , with no guidance save the slope of the mountain , which , at times , was quite precipitous ; but the roots of the pines grasping the rocks afforded hand and foot ...
John Tyndall. amid the pinewoods which overhang the valley of Grindelwald , with no guidance save the slope of the mountain , which , at times , was quite precipitous ; but the roots of the pines grasping the rocks afforded hand and foot ...
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... valleys were all in peaceful shadow . To our right the Staub- bach dangled its hazy veil , while other Bachs of minor note also hung from the beetling rocks , but fell to earth too lightly to produce the faintest murmur . After an ...
... valleys were all in peaceful shadow . To our right the Staub- bach dangled its hazy veil , while other Bachs of minor note also hung from the beetling rocks , but fell to earth too lightly to produce the faintest murmur . After an ...
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... valley was under water . A few weeks later , I found the Splügen , in the gorge above Chiavenna , alto- 1 Instead of attempting to write one myself , I requested the per- mission of my friend Mr. Hawkins to republish his admirable ...
... valley was under water . A few weeks later , I found the Splügen , in the gorge above Chiavenna , alto- 1 Instead of attempting to write one myself , I requested the per- mission of my friend Mr. Hawkins to republish his admirable ...
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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...