Hours of exercise in the Alps. [Followed by] Notes and comments on ice and glaciers [&c.].1871 |
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... finally as a whole . Vainly we endeavoured to ward off the coming lethargy . Thought gradually slips away from its object , or the object glides out of the nerveless grasp of thought , and we are conquered by the heat . But what is heat ...
... finally as a whole . Vainly we endeavoured to ward off the coming lethargy . Thought gradually slips away from its object , or the object glides out of the nerveless grasp of thought , and we are conquered by the heat . But what is heat ...
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... finally decide . We enter upon the glacier ; black chasms yawn here and there through the super- incumbent snow , but there is no real difficulty . We cross the glacier and reach the opposite slopes ; our way first lies up a moraine ...
... finally decide . We enter upon the glacier ; black chasms yawn here and there through the super- incumbent snow , but there is no real difficulty . We cross the glacier and reach the opposite slopes ; our way first lies up a moraine ...
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... finally they were unlocked by thunder , and shook themselves down upon us in furious rain . The glacier is here cut up into oblique valleys of ice , subdivided by sharp - edged crevasses . We advanced swiftly along the ridges , but ...
... finally they were unlocked by thunder , and shook themselves down upon us in furious rain . The glacier is here cut up into oblique valleys of ice , subdivided by sharp - edged crevasses . We advanced swiftly along the ridges , but ...
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... into a beaten track , finally reached the pleasant auberge at which our journey ends . From the hotel on the slope of Æggischhorn an hour's ascent is required to place you in presence of 88 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
... into a beaten track , finally reached the pleasant auberge at which our journey ends . From the hotel on the slope of Æggischhorn an hour's ascent is required to place you in presence of 88 [ 1861 HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPS .
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... finally decided on the route to be pursued next morning , and with a chastened hope in both our breasts we returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to ...
... finally decided on the route to be pursued next morning , and with a chastened hope in both our breasts we returned to our shelter . Water was our first necessity : it seemed every- where , but there was none to drink . It was locked to ...
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