Hours of Exercise in the AlpsD. Appleton, 1875 - 473 pagini |
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Pagina 6
... weather brightened , and we executed our measurements ; finding , as in all other cases , that the glacier was retarded by its bounding walls , its motion varying from a minimum of thirteen and a half inches to a maximum of twenty - two ...
... weather brightened , and we executed our measurements ; finding , as in all other cases , that the glacier was retarded by its bounding walls , its motion varying from a minimum of thirteen and a half inches to a maximum of twenty - two ...
Pagina 7
... weather became more serene as we approached Lauterbrunnen . We had a brief evening stroll , but retired to bed before day had quite forsaken the mountains . At two A.M. the candle of Lauener gleamed 1860 ] 77 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
... weather became more serene as we approached Lauterbrunnen . We had a brief evening stroll , but retired to bed before day had quite forsaken the mountains . At two A.M. the candle of Lauener gleamed 1860 ] 77 THE LAUWINEN - THOR .
Pagina 8
... weather fair . We got up at once , dressed , de- spatched our hasty breakfast , strapped our things into the smallest possible volume , and between three and four A.M. were on our way . The hidden sun crim- soned faintly the eastern sky ...
... weather fair . We got up at once , dressed , de- spatched our hasty breakfast , strapped our things into the smallest possible volume , and between three and four A.M. were on our way . The hidden sun crim- soned faintly the eastern sky ...
Pagina 9
... weather . We entered an amphitheatre , grand and beautiful this splendid morning , but doubtless in times of tempest a fit residence for the devils whom popular belief has banished to its crags . The snow for a space was as level as a ...
... weather . We entered an amphitheatre , grand and beautiful this splendid morning , but doubtless in times of tempest a fit residence for the devils whom popular belief has banished to its crags . The snow for a space was as level as a ...
Pagina 17
... weather in reaching the Grands Mulets . But the gleam which tempted me thus far proved but a temporary truce to the war of elements , and , after remaining twenty hours at the Mulets , I was obliged to beat an inglorious retreat ...
... weather in reaching the Grands Mulets . But the gleam which tempted me thus far proved but a temporary truce to the war of elements , and , after remaining twenty hours at the Mulets , I was obliged to beat an inglorious retreat ...
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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...