Author: Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781230399942

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...Schreckhorn, where not a wreath of vapour was to be seen under the whole vast canopy of the sky, a delicious lazy sense of calm repose was the appropriate frame of mind. One felt as if some immortal being, with no particular duties upon his hands, might be calmly sitting upon those desolate rocks and watching the little shadowy wrinkles of the plain, that were really mountain ranges, rise and fall through slow geological epochs. I had no companion to disturb my reverie or introduce discordant associations. An hour passed like a few minutes, but there were still difficulties to be encountered which would have made any longer delay unadvisable. I therefore added a few touches to our cairn, and then turned to the descent. Leslie Stephen (The Playground of Europe, 1871). 49. The Teaks of Primien ' I 'HE ordinary music of the streams, which relieves A some of the wildest Alpine gorges, was absolutely mu e. Not a sound was to be heard, and I felt almost too superstitious to try to raise an echo with my voice, lest I should receive a ghostly answer in return. The valley floor is nearly level, except where it is concealed by heaps of debris from the neighbouring peaks, and its surface is very dry and barren, except in one place where the melting snows must occasionally form a lake. A more savage piece of rock scenery is nowhere to be seen. No undulating snowfield or bounding torrent of glacier breaks the tremendous monotony. In every direction blank walls or daring spires of rock close you in as it were in a gigantic dungeon. Philosophers may explain how such places are made; but doubtless it was in some distant period the keep of the old goblin king. He was, if I am not mistaken, a potentate of bad character, and kept up intimate relations with...