The Alpine Regions of Switzerland and the Neighbouring Countries: A Pedestrian's Notes on Their Physical Features, Scenery, and Natural HistoryDeighton, Bell and Company, 1868 - 351 страница |
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... blocks . - Explanation of their presence . - The erratics of Monthey and the Jura . - Rounded , polished , and scratched rocks . - Erosive power of glaciers . - Epoch of their greatest extension . - Oscillations of glaciers in historic ...
... blocks . - Explanation of their presence . - The erratics of Monthey and the Jura . - Rounded , polished , and scratched rocks . - Erosive power of glaciers . - Epoch of their greatest extension . - Oscillations of glaciers in historic ...
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... blocks originally engraved for that periodical . All , except Figures 5 , 6 , 8—13 , 15 are from my sketches ; but it is only just that I should express my sense of how much some have gained in artistic effect , without the slightest ...
... blocks originally engraved for that periodical . All , except Figures 5 , 6 , 8—13 , 15 are from my sketches ; but it is only just that I should express my sense of how much some have gained in artistic effect , without the slightest ...
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... blocks and sends them thundering down the cliffs . The snow also upon the higher summits descends towards the val- leys in large masses of moving ice , called glaciers , which wear away the rock beneath . Some persons , indeed , struck ...
... blocks and sends them thundering down the cliffs . The snow also upon the higher summits descends towards the val- leys in large masses of moving ice , called glaciers , which wear away the rock beneath . Some persons , indeed , struck ...
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... blocks with smooth facets , whose edges are often as sharp as knives ; the curving planes of foliation at times giving a flame - like appearance to the outlines of the crests . The latter rock , though extremely hard in hand specimens ...
... blocks with smooth facets , whose edges are often as sharp as knives ; the curving planes of foliation at times giving a flame - like appearance to the outlines of the crests . The latter rock , though extremely hard in hand specimens ...
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... blocks of shale and limestone - without any conspicuous peaks , no one of which quite attains a height of eleven thousand feet . These , with the similar district on the other side of the gorge through which the Rhone descends from ...
... blocks of shale and limestone - without any conspicuous peaks , no one of which quite attains a height of eleven thousand feet . These , with the similar district on the other side of the gorge through which the Rhone descends from ...
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Alpine Alps Ampezzo appears ascend avalanche beautiful blocks blue Botzen cavern chain châlet chamois Chamouni cliffs colour Conservateur Suisse considerable crags crevasses crystalline rock dark Dauphiné débris deep descends distance district Dolomite Dr Tyndall eastern especially fall fissure former fragments glacier gorge Gorner Gorner glacier Graians granite guides head height Isère Jura Lake of Geneva Lake of Lucerne limestone lower Lyskamm mass massif miles Mont Blanc Monte Rosa moraines mountain narrow nearly neighbourhood neighbouring night northern Oberland occupied once pass pastures peaks Pennine Pennine Alps perhaps plain precipices Puster-thal region Rhine Rhone valley ridge rise river road Savoy scenery seen séracs shale shew side slopes snow southern Splügen springs steep stone stream summit surface Swiss Switzerland thousand feet torrent travellers trough unfrequently upper Val d'Illiez Valais village Visp walk walls winter Zermatt
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Страница 55 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Страница 146 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Страница 228 - ... as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token; but of these the wild bird will make its nest, and the wearied child his pillow.
Страница 228 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the headstone. The woods, the blossoms, the gift-bearing grasses, have done their parts for a time, but these do service for ever. Trees for the builder's yard, flowers for the bride's chamber, corn for the granary, moss for the grave.
Страница 227 - Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 237 - In viewing the descent of the trees, my nephew and I stood quite close to the edge of the trough, not being more interested about any thing than to experience the impression which the near view of so singular an object must make on a spectator. The noise, the rapidity of the motion, the magnitude of the moving body, and the force with which it seemed to shake the trough as it passed, were altogether very formidable, and conveyed an idea of danger much greater than the reality. Our guide refused to...
Страница 214 - ... either in luxuriant mass, or in happy isolation, allows no branch to be seen. Summit behind summit rise its pyramidal ranges, or down to the very grass sweep the circlets of its boughs ; — so that there is nothing but green cone, and green carpet. Nor is it only softer, but in one sense more cheerful than other foliage, for it casts only a pyramidal shadow. Lowland forest arches overhead, and chequers the ground with darkness ; but the pine, growing in scattered groups, leaves the glades between...
Страница 243 - EXCEPT the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it.
Страница 77 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Страница 228 - Sharing the stillness of the unimpassioned rock, they share also its endurance ; and while the winds of departing spring scatter the white hawthorn blossom like drifted snow, and summer dims on the parched meadow the drooping of its cowslip-gold, — far above, among the mountains, the silver lichen-spots rest, star-like, on the stone; and the gathering orange stain upon the edge of yonder western peak reflects the sunsets of a thousand years.