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... glacier , with its sea - green and honeycombed battlements of ice . Up the valley , under a dizzy precipice , nestled the village of Kandersteg , our halting - place for the night . We were soon there , and housed in the hotel . But the ...
... glacier , with its sea - green and honeycombed battlements of ice . Up the valley , under a dizzy precipice , nestled the village of Kandersteg , our halting - place for the night . We were soon there , and housed in the hotel . But the ...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Exercise and Amusement . 2 I ramparts of glaciers ; but two or three of these , instead of ... glacier streams gather and flow through it in a broad and rushing brook to a narrow cleft between lofty precipices ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Exercise and Amusement . 2 I ramparts of glaciers ; but two or three of these , instead of ... glacier streams gather and flow through it in a broad and rushing brook to a narrow cleft between lofty precipices ...
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... glacier , and fall headlong over precipitous rocks till they lose themselves in the mazes of the Gorner glacier . ' He took his hot toast and coffee , and then about half - past three his caravan of ten men filed away from the Riffel ...
... glacier , and fall headlong over precipitous rocks till they lose themselves in the mazes of the Gorner glacier . ' He took his hot toast and coffee , and then about half - past three his caravan of ten men filed away from the Riffel ...
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... glacier below . Great caution , therefore , was absolutely ne- cessary , and in this exposed situation we were at- tacked by all the fury of that grand enemy of aspirants to Monte Rosa ― a severe and bitterly cold wind from the north ...
... glacier below . Great caution , therefore , was absolutely ne- cessary , and in this exposed situation we were at- tacked by all the fury of that grand enemy of aspirants to Monte Rosa ― a severe and bitterly cold wind from the north ...
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... glacier on the right - a thing like a great river frozen solid in its flow and broken square off like a wall at its mouth . I had never been so near a glacier before . 38 A Grand View . Here we came upon a 37 CHAPTER XXXV. ...
... glacier on the right - a thing like a great river frozen solid in its flow and broken square off like a wall at its mouth . I had never been so near a glacier before . 38 A Grand View . Here we came upon a 37 CHAPTER XXXV. ...
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