Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, 第 5 巻Scottish Mountaineering Club., 1899 Includes reviews of mountaineering literature. |
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56 ページ - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
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193 ページ - ... the purpose ; but he indicated a way different from those which he had tried, which he thought might be more successful. I engaged him to accompany me, and the next day (July 7.) we succeeded in gaining the top ; the extreme roughness of the rocks (all Hypersthene) rendering the ascent safe, where, with any other formation, it might have been considerably perilous. Indeed, I have never seen a rock so adapted for clambering. At that time I erected a cairn and temporary flag, which stood, I was...
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203 ページ - Now, turning to the north, and sweeping the horizon from east to west, what do we see ? Peaks, and pinnacles, jagged crests and fantastic outlines ; a wilderness of weird shapes, dark, solemn, and awful. Giant Sgorna-Gillian is there, the monarch of the Cuchullins ; and hear it, brother members of the Alpine Club, another peak a little to the south, laid down by enterprising Captain Wood on the Admiralty chart as being 3212 feet high, and inaccessible. At a recent meeting of this Club, the excellent...
185 ページ - He's a Whig, Sir ; a sad dog (smiling at his own violent expressions, merely for political difference of opinion). But he's the best traveller I ever read ; he observes more things than any one else does.
88 ページ - From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ¿Egean isle : thus they relate...
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