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... present volume , however , is for the most part a record of bodily action , written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours , and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions ...
... present volume , however , is for the most part a record of bodily action , written partly to preserve to myself the memory of strong and joyous hours , and partly for the pleasure of those who find exhilaration in descriptions ...
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... present exercise of Mr. Bain's muscular sense , ' I obtain a somewhat intelligible , though , doubtless , still secondary theory of my delight in the mountains . The name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a theodolite ...
... present exercise of Mr. Bain's muscular sense , ' I obtain a somewhat intelligible , though , doubtless , still secondary theory of my delight in the mountains . The name of a friend whom I taught in his boy- hood to handle a theodolite ...
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... present attempt should not be successful . The elastic grass disappeared , and we passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal ...
... present attempt should not be successful . The elastic grass disappeared , and we passed over rough crag and shingle alternately . We reached the base of a ridge of débris , and mounted it . At our right was the glacier of the Roththal ...
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... present in consequence only the narrative of an unfinished campaign , which it is the hope of Tyndall and myself to be able to prosecute to a successful conclusion early next August . I had fallen in with Professor Tyndall on the Basle ...
... present in consequence only the narrative of an unfinished campaign , which it is the hope of Tyndall and myself to be able to prosecute to a successful conclusion early next August . I had fallen in with Professor Tyndall on the Basle ...
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... present shape , it seems as if such a mass as this can have been blocked out only while rising from the sea , under the action of waves such as beat against the granite headlands of the Land's End . Once on dry land , it must stand as ...
... present shape , it seems as if such a mass as this can have been blocked out only while rising from the sea , under the action of waves such as beat against the granite headlands of the Land's End . Once on dry land , it must stand as ...
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