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... fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic pene- tration , Mr. Herbert Spencer has written of the ...
... fall back upon something earlier than my own birth . The forgotten associations of a far - gone ancestry are probably the most potent elements in the feeling . With characteristic pene- tration , Mr. Herbert Spencer has written of the ...
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... fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the ...
... fall beyond the ridge . I had to work along the snow cautiously , squatting down so as to prevent the rock from pushing me too far out . Had I a fair ledge underneath I should have felt per- fectly at ease , but on the stability of the ...
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... falling bodies could inflict at hand , I felt that there were perils at home for intellectual men greater even than those which then surrounded us -foes , moreover , which inspire no manhood by their attacks , but shatter alike the ...
... falling bodies could inflict at hand , I felt that there were perils at home for intellectual men greater even than those which then surrounded us -foes , moreover , which inspire no manhood by their attacks , but shatter alike the ...
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... to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic compass , and many other remnants of the fall . At the bottom of the snow - slope M. Curie c 2 1860 ] 19 DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT .
... to assure ourselves that we were on the exact track . We found there a pen- knife , a small magnetic compass , and many other remnants of the fall . At the bottom of the snow - slope M. Curie c 2 1860 ] 19 DISASTER ON THE COL DU GÉANT .
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... fall . Under the snow , at some distance up the slope , we found a fine new ice - axe , the property of one of the guides . We held on to the track up to the very summit of the col , and as I stood there and scanned the line of my ...
... fall . Under the snow , at some distance up the slope , we found a fine new ice - axe , the property of one of the guides . We held on to the track up to the very summit of the col , and as I stood there and scanned the line of my ...
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Æggischhorn afterwards Aletsch glacier Aletschhorn Alphubel Alpine Alps ancient arête ascended atmosphere avalanche barrier beauty Bennen Bergschrund blue bottom Breuil Carrel chasm cliff climbed climber clouds Col du Géant colour companion couloir crags crevasses crossed Crown 8vo dark deep descended distance erosion fall feet Finsteraarhorn fissures foot formed gorge green Grimsel halted heat heaven heights Illustrations Jungfrau lake Lauener ledge length light liquid looked Macugnaga mass Matterhorn melted Mer de Glace Monte Rosa moraine morning Morteratsch glacier motion mountain névé night observed passed peak Plates Pontresina portion Post 8vo precipice pressure reached regelation rendered Rhone ridge river rocks rope round Second Edition seemed side slope snow snow-field soon steep stones summit surface theory thought turned Tyndall Val Tournanche valley vapour vertical vols weather Weisshorn wind Woodcuts Zermatt
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