The Frozen Stream: An Account of the Formation and Properties of Ice in Various Parts of the WorldSoc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862 - 260 Seiten |
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... traveller and his servant sat at the bottom of the canoe , in the centre , and waited for a launch , while the ... travellers had nothing to do but to sit still " Tenez ferme ! 16 THE FROZEN STREAM .
... traveller and his servant sat at the bottom of the canoe , in the centre , and waited for a launch , while the ... travellers had nothing to do but to sit still " Tenez ferme ! 16 THE FROZEN STREAM .
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... traveller finds that the promontory on which he is standing is sur- rounded by forests , green fields , and smiling orchards . Flocks are feeding , perhaps , in the meadows , attended by a shepherd playing on his flute . Reapers may be ...
... traveller finds that the promontory on which he is standing is sur- rounded by forests , green fields , and smiling orchards . Flocks are feeding , perhaps , in the meadows , attended by a shepherd playing on his flute . Reapers may be ...
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... traveller pursues his way over the glacier ice , he finds that the masses which lie behind this pro- jecting promontory are much broken , traversed by GLACIER OF ZERMATT . - Middle Portion . deep chasms , and surmounted by numerous iso ...
... traveller pursues his way over the glacier ice , he finds that the masses which lie behind this pro- jecting promontory are much broken , traversed by GLACIER OF ZERMATT . - Middle Portion . deep chasms , and surmounted by numerous iso ...
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... traveller to destruction . Sometimes , through a narrow slit or hole , opening to the surface of the névé , he may see spacious caverns of wide dimensions , over which he has been ignorantly treading , filled with hills of detached ice ...
... traveller to destruction . Sometimes , through a narrow slit or hole , opening to the surface of the névé , he may see spacious caverns of wide dimensions , over which he has been ignorantly treading , filled with hills of detached ice ...
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... traveller , and bringing back a rich reward in the increased light which he was able to throw on the whole subject . He was not satisfied with numerous summer excursions and ascents : he also spent five days on the Mer de Glace in the ...
... traveller , and bringing back a rich reward in the increased light which he was able to throw on the whole subject . He was not satisfied with numerous summer excursions and ascents : he also spent five days on the Mer de Glace in the ...
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animals ANNE PRATT appearance Arctic beautiful become berg blocks bottom called capillary action carried cause cavern cavities CHARLES TOMLINSON cold cone cooling covered crevasses crystals currents danger deep depth descend described distance edge effect ether evaporation expansion exposed fall feet filled fishes floating Forbes freezing mixture freezing point frost frost fair frozen Glace glacier glacier motion ground ground-ice heat height holes ice-house icebergs inches lake layers liquid lower masses of ice melting Mer de Glace miles Mont Blanc moraine motion mountains névé pieces of ice Plates pond portion pressure prisms produced Professor Tyndall quantity regelation regions rise river rock salt season seen ship shores side skating snow-line soil solid sometimes specific gravity stone straw stream summer supply surface TABULAR ICEBERG temperature thaw thermometer thick tion traveller upper valley vapour vessel walls weather Wenham Lake whole wind winter
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Seite 10 - Ye Ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, 374 Answer ! and let the ice-plains...
Seite 245 - Branch'd out in many a long canal extends, From every province swarming, void of care, Batavia rushes forth ; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is madden'd all to joy.
Seite 255 - Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.
Seite 255 - No forest fell When thou would'st build; no quarry sent its stores To enrich thy walls: but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Seite 185 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Seite 41 - It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets, and in a short time became a solid mass of ice; and by a blow or two of the hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation.
Seite 28 - Indeed we have already mentioned that the heat is abstracted most rapidly from the body during strong breezes, and most of those who have perished from cold in this country, have fallen a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lake or other unsheltered place, by a storm of wind.
Seite 158 - This shining streak, which looks always brightest in clear weather, indicates, to the experienced navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snowfields has some tinge of yellow.
Seite 257 - ... lewd places, so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph, or carnival on the water, whilst it was a severe judgment on the land, the trees not only splitting as if lightningstruck, but men and cattle perishing in divers places, and the very seas so locked up with ice, that no vessels could stir out or come in.