The Exploration of the Caucasus, Volume 1E. Arnold, 1896 - 278 páginas |
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Adish Alpine Club Alps Ardon ascent azaleas Balkar basin beautiful Betsho Black Sea broad Burdjula Caucasian Central Caucasus Central Group Cherek Circassian cliffs climbed climbers Cossack crest crossed Darial Déchy descend Dévouassoud distance Dongusorun Donkin Dykhtau Elbruz exploration feet five-verst map followed forests Gebi Georgian Gestola glen gorge granite hamlet height horses ice-fall Ingur Janga Karagom Glacier Karaul Kasbek Koshtantau Kutais Laila landscape Latpari Pass Lentekhi less limestone lower main chain Mamison Pass Mestia miles Mingrelian moraine mountain Mujal Naltshik native névé northern Ossete pastures path peaks photographs Radde range ridge Rion road rocks round Royal Geographical Society Russian scenery schists Shkara side Signor Sella Skenis Skali slopes snow snowfields snowy southern spurs Starshina steep steppe stream Suanetia summits Tetnuld Tiflis torrent towers track traveller upper Urukh Ushba Ushkul valley village Vittorio Sella Vladikavkaz W. F. Donkin Woolley Zanner
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Página 124 - The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
Página 56 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 220 - But that went off (as it never came again; while we stayed we had no more fine sunsets); and we entered Coleridge's comfortable study just in the dusk, when the mountains were all dark with clouds upon their heads. Such an impression I never received from objects of sight before, nor do I suppose I can ever again.
Página 225 - ... of them covered with a rude white plaster. Square in form, they were redeemed from a resemblance to factory chimneys by their roofs and battlements, pierced for musketry. Round their base clustered barn-like dwellings built of dark slate. The scene was weird and strange. My mind wandered far for a comparison: first to some woodcut familiar in childhood, an illustration to Lane's Arabian Nights, then to Tuscan San Gimignano. We hurried on towards these habitations with all the eagerness of men...
Página 176 - That huddling slant in furrow-cloven falls To roll the torrent out of dusky doors : But follow; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone, and leave...
Página 198 - Hanyson, is alle covered with derknesse, withouten ony brightnesse or light ; so that no man may see ne here, ne no man dar entren in to hem. And natheles thei of the...
Página vi - White soul, in lands of purer light Who caught the secrets of the snow, For you no priest performed the rite, No hireling led the funeral show ; — Lost on the far Caucasian height, We know not how ; we only know The guardian stars their vigils keep, The mountain walls their ward extend, Where Nature holds in quiet sleep Her own interpreter and friend.
Página 198 - Derknesse, with outen ony brightnesse or light; so that no man may see ne here, ne no man dar entren in to hem. And natheles, thei of the Contree seyn, that som tyme men heren voys of folk, and Hors nyzenge, and Cokkes crowynge. And men witen wel, that men dwellen there : but thei knowe not what men. And thei seyn, that the Derknesse befelle be Myracle of God. For a cursed Emperour of Persie, that highte Saures, pursuede alle Cristene men, to destroye hem, and to compelle hem to make Sacrifise to...
Página 16 - Although with a greater mean elevation than those of the Alps, the Caucasian peaks are far less covered with snow and ice, not only in consequence of their more southerly latitude and other climatic conditions, but also owing to the narrowness of the upper crests and the absence of cirques, where the accumulated snows might serve as reservoirs of glaciers. . . . The absence of snow produces a corresponding scarcity of glaciers.
Página 75 - If you wish to change, not only your earth and sky but your century, to find yourself one week among the pastoral folk who once peopled northern Asia, the next among barbarians who have been left stranded while the rest of the world has flowed on ; if it attracts you to share the bivouac of Tauli shepherds, to sit at supper with a feudal chieftain while his retainers chant the old ballads of their race by the light of birchbark torches — go to the Caucasus.