The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & GlaciersH.S. King & Company, 1873 - 192 páginas |
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... round by Chambery , you come at length to the Lake of Geneva , from which the river rushes , and which you might be disposed to regard as the source of the Rhone . But go to the head of the lake , and you find that the Rhone there ...
... round by Chambery , you come at length to the Lake of Geneva , from which the river rushes , and which you might be disposed to regard as the source of the Rhone . But go to the head of the lake , and you find that the Rhone there ...
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... rounded by a beautiful liquid flower with six petals . 98. Ice and water are so optically alike that unless the light fall properly upon these flowers you cannot see them . But what is the central spot ? A vacuum . Ice swims on water ...
... rounded by a beautiful liquid flower with six petals . 98. Ice and water are so optically alike that unless the light fall properly upon these flowers you cannot see them . But what is the central spot ? A vacuum . Ice swims on water ...
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... round the promontory of Trélaporte , and walked right up the Glacier du Géant . We should have found ice under our feet up to the bottom of the cascade . It is not so compact as the ice lower down , but you would not think of refusing ...
... round the promontory of Trélaporte , and walked right up the Glacier du Géant . We should have found ice under our feet up to the bottom of the cascade . It is not so compact as the ice lower down , but you would not think of refusing ...
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... round them , and sometimes cross them by bridges of snow . Here the skill and know- ledge to be acquired only by long practice come into play ; and here also the use of the Alpine rope sug- gests itself . For not only are the snow ...
... round them , and sometimes cross them by bridges of snow . Here the skill and know- ledge to be acquired only by long practice come into play ; and here also the use of the Alpine rope sug- gests itself . For not only are the snow ...
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... round this promontory , ascending all the time . We squeeze ourselves through the Egralets , a kind of natural staircase in the rock , and soon afterwards obtain a full view of the ice - fall , the origin of which we wish to find . The ...
... round this promontory , ascending all the time . We squeeze ourselves through the Egralets , a kind of natural staircase in the rock , and soon afterwards obtain a full view of the ice - fall , the origin of which we wish to find . The ...
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Agassiz Aiguille du Dru Aletsch glacier Alps Arveiron beautiful Bergschrund bottom branch glaciers cascade centre chasms cloth cloud Col du Géant Cornhill crevasses crossed Crown 8vo Demy 8vo descend distance eastern side Edition fact fall feet fissures fixed formed freezing Glace Glacier du Géant glacier motion glacier moves Grande Jorasse Grimsel Pass Grindelwald heat ice-fall icebergs icicle Illustrated inches a day labours lake lateral moraine liquefaction liquid London look lower maximum motion measurements medial moraine melting Mer de Glace Mont Montanvert Morteratsch glacier Moulin névé notice numbers observation pass Paternoster Row point of swiftest Pontresina Ponts portion pressure Price produced rate of motion reach regelation Rhone ridge river rocks round sketch sliding slope snow Stake Inches surface swiftest motion Tacul Talčfre telescope temperature thawing theodolite theory transparent Trélaporte Unteraar valley vapour vols waves western width winter yards
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