The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers |
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Common terms and phrases
Agassiz Aiguille Aiguille du Dru Aletsch Aletsch glacier Alps Arveiron ascend beautiful Bergschrund Bernese Oberland bottom called cascade centre Chamouni chasms chilled cleft cloud Col du Géant cold crevasses cross crystals descend distance eastern side expands fact fall feet fissures fixed flask Forbes formed freezing Glace Glacier des Bois Glacier du Géant glacier motion glacier moves Grande Jorasse Grimsel Pass Grindelwald heat ice-fall icicle inches a day lake lateral moraine liquefaction liquid look lower maximum motion measurements medial moraine melted Mer de Glace Mont Montanvert Morteratsch glacier Moulin névé numbers observations particles pass plateau point of maximum point of swiftest poles Pontresina portion pressure produced Professor rate of motion reach regelation Rhone ridges river rocks rubbish sketch slope snow snow-line Stake Inches surface swiftest motion Tacul Talèfre telescope temperature theodolite Trélaporte Unteraar valley vapour waves western width winter yards
Popular passages
Page 189 - I conclude that they stand to each other in the relation of cause and effect.
Page 158 - Between the Mer de Glace and a river there is a resemblance so complete that it is impossible to find in the glacier a circumstance which does not exist in the river.
Page 4 - Watch the cloud banner from the funnel of a running locomotive : you see it growing gradually less dense. It finally melts away altogether, and, if you continue your observations, you will not fail to notice that the speed of its disappearance depends on the character of the day.
Page 123 - It does not appear to me', he writes, 'that there is anything which human sagacity can fathom, within the wide-extended bounds of the visible creation, which affords a more striking or more palpable proof of the wisdom of the Creator, and of the special care He has taken in the general arrangement of the Universe to preserve animal life, than this wonderful contrivance'.