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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... described by many others , and I may , in some cases , have used their accounts to refresh my own memory . My endeavour has been to record , to the best of my power , the various things which strike and impress persons who , like myself ...
... described by many others , and I may , in some cases , have used their accounts to refresh my own memory . My endeavour has been to record , to the best of my power , the various things which strike and impress persons who , like myself ...
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... described , and can hardly be explained in the limits to which we must restrict ourselves . The moun- tains consist chiefly of crystalline or highly altered coherent rocks , and do not rise to so great an elevation as in the neigh ...
... described , and can hardly be explained in the limits to which we must restrict ourselves . The moun- tains consist chiefly of crystalline or highly altered coherent rocks , and do not rise to so great an elevation as in the neigh ...
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... described as taking place during a single day . In reality it was performed in two journeys . It would be possible , though fatiguing , to go as described in the text ; but it is usual to pass the night at the Riffel Hotel at a height ...
... described as taking place during a single day . In reality it was performed in two journeys . It would be possible , though fatiguing , to go as described in the text ; but it is usual to pass the night at the Riffel Hotel at a height ...
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... described by Dr Tyndall . Passing onwards toward Monte Rosa , we begin to notice a thin coating of snow spread over the surface of the glacier . This gradually thickens , till at last the hard ice can only be seen in the walls of the ...
... described by Dr Tyndall . Passing onwards toward Monte Rosa , we begin to notice a thin coating of snow spread over the surface of the glacier . This gradually thickens , till at last the hard ice can only be seen in the walls of the ...
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... described by him in the ' Glaciers of the Alps . ' After a number of observations he came to the conclusion that a glacier could not stretch so much as seven - tenths of an inch in five hours , or be bent through an angle of 1 ° 50 ...
... described by him in the ' Glaciers of the Alps . ' After a number of observations he came to the conclusion that a glacier could not stretch so much as seven - tenths of an inch in five hours , or be bent through an angle of 1 ° 50 ...
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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.