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... fissures , which extended quite across , and rendered a direct advance up the gulley impossible ; but higher up we dropped down upon the snow . Close to the rocks it was scarred by a furrow six or eight feet deep , and about twelve in ...
... fissures , which extended quite across , and rendered a direct advance up the gulley impossible ; but higher up we dropped down upon the snow . Close to the rocks it was scarred by a furrow six or eight feet deep , and about twelve in ...
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John Tyndall. crevasses , thus permitting of rapid motion ; but by degrees the fissures opened , and at length drove us to the rocks . These in their turn became imprac- ticable . Dropping down a waterfall well known to the climbers of ...
John Tyndall. crevasses , thus permitting of rapid motion ; but by degrees the fissures opened , and at length drove us to the rocks . These in their turn became imprac- ticable . Dropping down a waterfall well known to the climbers of ...
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... fissures increased , and the fragility of the snow - bridges became more conspicuous . The crevasses yawned here and there with threatening gloom , while along their fringes the crystallising power of water played the most fantastic ...
... fissures increased , and the fragility of the snow - bridges became more conspicuous . The crevasses yawned here and there with threatening gloom , while along their fringes the crystallising power of water played the most fantastic ...
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... fissures . There is a passive cruelty in the aspect of these chasms sufficient to make the blood run cold . Among them it is not good for man to be alone , so I halted in the midst of them and swerved back towards the Faulberg . But ...
... fissures . There is a passive cruelty in the aspect of these chasms sufficient to make the blood run cold . Among them it is not good for man to be alone , so I halted in the midst of them and swerved back towards the Faulberg . But ...
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... fissures . Those who hold the latter hypothesis maintain that the valleys have been cut out by the action of ice and ... fissure theory - that the profound chasm thus named , and through which the Hinter - Rhein now flows , could be ...
... fissures . Those who hold the latter hypothesis maintain that the valleys have been cut out by the action of ice and ... fissure theory - that the profound chasm thus named , and through which the Hinter - Rhein now flows , could be ...
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