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... and vapourous heights , little ruffled zigzag milky currents came crawling , and found their way to the verge of one of those tremendous overhanging walls , whence 20 Kandersteg Valley . they plunged , a shaft of C 2 A Cheerful Ride. ...
... and vapourous heights , little ruffled zigzag milky currents came crawling , and found their way to the verge of one of those tremendous overhanging walls , whence 20 Kandersteg Valley . they plunged , a shaft of C 2 A Cheerful Ride. ...
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... walls around it were so gigantic , and everything about it was on so mighty a scale , that it was belittled , by contrast , to what I have likened it to - a cosy and carpeted parlour . It was so high above the Kandersteg valley that ...
... walls around it were so gigantic , and everything about it was on so mighty a scale , that it was belittled , by contrast , to what I have likened it to - a cosy and carpeted parlour . It was so high above the Kandersteg valley that ...
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... walls . The green nook which I have been describing is called the Gasternthal . The glacier streams gather and flow through it in a broad and rushing brook to a narrow cleft between lofty precipices ; here the rushing brook becomes a ...
... walls . The green nook which I have been describing is called the Gasternthal . The glacier streams gather and flow through it in a broad and rushing brook to a narrow cleft between lofty precipices ; here the rushing brook becomes a ...
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... walls . We could have dropped a stone into it . We had been finding the top of the world all along - and always finding a still higher top stealing into view in a disappointing way just ahead ; when we looked down into the Gasternthal ...
... walls . We could have dropped a stone into it . We had been finding the top of the world all along - and always finding a still higher top stealing into view in a disappointing way just ahead ; when we looked down into the Gasternthal ...
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... wall from which great blocks of ice and snow were evi- dently in the habit of falling . They turned aside to skirt this wall , and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a ' maze of gigantic snow cre- vasses — so they turned ...
... wall from which great blocks of ice and snow were evi- dently in the habit of falling . They turned aside to skirt this wall , and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a ' maze of gigantic snow cre- vasses — so they turned ...
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