The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... action of heat and cold , of rain and frost , of snow and ice , and the thousand streams that flow down the mountain - sides . It is with soils that we are chiefly concerned at present . Try to think for a moment of the literally vital ...
... action of heat and cold , of rain and frost , of snow and ice , and the thousand streams that flow down the mountain - sides . It is with soils that we are chiefly concerned at present . Try to think for a moment of the literally vital ...
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... action seems to be largely responsible for the production of minerals . Thus we find around Vesuvius , and in fact in all volcanic regions , large and varied supplies of minerals . Now , the geolo- gist discovers that many mountain ...
... action seems to be largely responsible for the production of minerals . Thus we find around Vesuvius , and in fact in all volcanic regions , large and varied supplies of minerals . Now , the geolo- gist discovers that many mountain ...
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... action of subterranean heat , acting long ago on the rocks which we now see standing up high above the general surface of the ground , though once they were buried deep down be- low the surface . Diamonds as well as gold are often got ...
... action of subterranean heat , acting long ago on the rocks which we now see standing up high above the general surface of the ground , though once they were buried deep down be- low the surface . Diamonds as well as gold are often got ...
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... action , that of the lowlands repose . " 1 The plains , with their peaceful meadows and meandering streams , might almost be said to be asleep ; but the mountains are wide awake . They are emphati- cally scenes of violent or rapid action ...
... action , that of the lowlands repose . " 1 The plains , with their peaceful meadows and meandering streams , might almost be said to be asleep ; but the mountains are wide awake . They are emphati- cally scenes of violent or rapid action ...
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... action of water . These are the ordinary " stratified . " stratified " rocks , which in one form or another meet us almost every- where , and may be said to be aqueous de- posits , or sediments formed in seas and inland lakes . They are ...
... action of water . These are the ordinary " stratified . " stratified " rocks , which in one form or another meet us almost every- where , and may be said to be aqueous de- posits , or sediments formed in seas and inland lakes . They are ...
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Страница 57 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures...
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Страница 120 - When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and grey 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 120 - ... 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.
Страница 120 - Meek creatures ! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks ; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honour the scarred disgrace of ruin,— laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Страница 301 - ... their rude and changeful ways among her rocks. Patiently, eddy by eddy, the clear green streams wind along their well-known beds; and under the dark quietness of the undisturbed pines, there spring up, year by year, such company of joyful flowers as I know not the like of among all the blessings of the earth.
Страница 120 - ... on the trembling stones to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom...
Страница 300 - Ain, above the village of Champagnole, in the Jura. It is a spot which has all the solemnity, with none of the savageness, of the Alps, where there is a sense of a great power beginning to be manifested in the earth, and of a deep and majestic concord in the rise of the long, low lines of piny hills...
Страница 62 - As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire. The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.