The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which They are RelatedTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 446 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
afterwards Agassiz Aiguille Aiguille du Dru Aiguille Verte ALETSCH GLACIER Alps amid appeared ascended atmosphere avalanche Balmat beauty Bennen blue Breithorn cascade centre Chamouni chasms cleavage climbed clouds Col du Géant colour crags crevasses crossed crystal débris deep descended distance edge feet Finsteraarhorn fissures footing formed front frozen Glace Glacier du Géant Görner Grande Jorasse Grands Mulets Grindelwald heat height Hirst inches kamm lake Lauener Léchaud ledge length light liquid looked Lyskamm magnetic mass melted Mer de Glace Mont Blanc Montanvert Monte Rosa moraine morning motion mountain moved névé oblique observed once pass portion precipice pressure produced Professor Forbes rays reached Rhone glacier ridges Riffelhorn rock rose round scene seen séracs side Simond slope snow sometimes sound stake steep stood summit surface Tacul Talèfre temperature theodolite tion Trélaporte valley veins velocity walls waves