New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 127–128. köideE. W. Allen, 1863 |
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Page 63
... remarkable cascade , which found its way through a deep chasm in the rocks , truly a scene of savage grandeur , and reminding me of many a similar sheet of water in dear old Norway . From the village of Val Tournanche I walked to Breuil ...
... remarkable cascade , which found its way through a deep chasm in the rocks , truly a scene of savage grandeur , and reminding me of many a similar sheet of water in dear old Norway . From the village of Val Tournanche I walked to Breuil ...
Page 64
... remarkable and , as I have said , defiant manner . Pro- fessor Tyndall , however , will , I think , accomplish the ascent next season ; bad weather frustrated him this last summer . He made the attempt the same day that I ascended Monte ...
... remarkable and , as I have said , defiant manner . Pro- fessor Tyndall , however , will , I think , accomplish the ascent next season ; bad weather frustrated him this last summer . He made the attempt the same day that I ascended Monte ...
Page 67
... remarkable rock ( of extraordinary shape ) , on our right , our party , consisting of Jean Marie Couttet , Jean Krönig , Mark Tiarraz , and myself , reached the Gorner Glacier at the foot of the Riffelberg without any dislocated limbs ...
... remarkable rock ( of extraordinary shape ) , on our right , our party , consisting of Jean Marie Couttet , Jean Krönig , Mark Tiarraz , and myself , reached the Gorner Glacier at the foot of the Riffelberg without any dislocated limbs ...
Page 71
... remarkable walk , of nearly two hours , along an exceed- ingly narrow ridge , steeply inclined , of alternately rocks and intervals of snow : these latter often barely one foot wide , with , on one side , a drop of some thousand or ...
... remarkable walk , of nearly two hours , along an exceed- ingly narrow ridge , steeply inclined , of alternately rocks and intervals of snow : these latter often barely one foot wide , with , on one side , a drop of some thousand or ...
Page 92
... remarkable for their thick woody covers , and mountain caverns here and there placed at intervals . They display the same appearance which the wildest and most newly - discovered shores exhibit to the voyagers who sail to far- distant ...
... remarkable for their thick woody covers , and mountain caverns here and there placed at intervals . They display the same appearance which the wildest and most newly - discovered shores exhibit to the voyagers who sail to far- distant ...
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