Extracts from My Journal, M.DCCC.LII: Printed for Private Circulation OnlyC. Muskett, 1853 - 56 頁 |
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abyss adventure Aiguille du Midi Aiguilles Alpenstocks Alps Arrête ascended ascent of Mont avalanche blue bottle chalets Chamonix chasm Chatillon clouds Col du Géant cold Coutet crag crevasse crossed danger descended distance Dôme du Goûté eau de vie edge Edouard Simon fatiguing fearful feet fell gaiters glacier of Tacconay Grand Plateau Grands Mulets guides half-past hour huge Kirschwasser knapsacks ladder ledge less looked Macugnaga Michel and Alexandre Michel Pacquat mist Mont Blanc Mont Cervin Monte Rosa moraine morning mountain night o'clock ourselves party pass peak perilous perpendicular wall Petit Plateau Pierre des Echelles Pierre Pointue precipice reaching the Petit rest ridge rocks rope rose round route safely Sallanches Sargent scarcely Serac side single file slope soon spot steps stood stretched summit of Mont thought Tournanche Ussher VAL TOURNANCHE valley village walk watched Weiss Thor wind wine yards Zermatt
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第 5 頁 - He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow . Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
第 1 頁 - It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation: let diaries, therefore, be brought in use.
第 25 頁 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
第 50 頁 - A man might, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger in this attempt ; for here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what though ? Courage ! As horns are odious, they are necessary. It is said, — many a man knows no end of his goods : right ; many a man has good horns, and knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of his...
第 36 頁 - I do not profess to recognize the exact spots on the glacier, for the changes which the ice undergoes every year would make that impossible, even supposing the views to be portraits of it as it was when Albert Smith crossed it ; but the artist has given a very correct representation of the kind of places one meets with, and has caught the spirit and expression of the scenes, especially in his picture of the crevasse down which Dr.
第 3 頁 - That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels they had something heard, But not intentively " — • or, if not all, at least the particulars of our ascent of Mont Blanc.