Switzerland, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1822 |
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الصفحة 405 - I do not believe there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there are so few uninstructed, and at the same time so few learned individuals. Primary instruction is within the reach of everybody ; superior instruction is scarcely to be obtained by any.
الصفحة 182 - ... larger than all the others, was observed ; insensibly it increased ; springs of water ceased all at once to flow, the pine-trees of the forest absolutely reeled ; birds flew away screaming. A few minutes before five o'clock, the symptoms of some mighty catastrophe became still stronger ; the whole surface of the mountain seemed to glide down, but so slowly, as to afford time to the inhabitants to go away. An old man, who had often predicted some such disaster, was quietly smoking his pipe, when...
الصفحة 246 - There was once an instance of a herd of fourteen chamois, which, being hard pressed, rushed down a precipice to certain death, rather than be taken. It is wonderful to see them climb abrupt and naked rocks, and leap from one narrow cliff to another, the smallest projection serving them for a point of rest, upon which they alight, but only just to take another spring; their agility made people believe formerly that they could support themselves by means of their hooked horns. They have been known...
الصفحة 181 - At two o'clock in the afternoon, on the 2d of September, a large rock became loose, and in falling, raised a cloud of black dust. Toward the lower part of the mountain, the ground seemed pressed down from above; and, when a stick or a spade was driven in, it moved of itself. A man who had been digging in his garden ran away, from fright at these extraordinary appearances; soon a fissure, larger than all the others, was observed; insensibly, it increased: springs of water ceased all at once to flow,...
الصفحة 182 - I was sometimes on my head, sometimes on my feet, in total darkness, and violently separated from the child" — when the motion stopped, she found herself jammed in on all sides, with her head downwards, much bruised, and in extreme pain. She supposed she was buried alive at a great depth ; with much difficulty she disengaged her right hand, and wiped the blood from her eyes. Presently she heard the faint moans of...
الصفحة 191 - The most considerable of the villages overwhelmed in the Vale of Arth was Goldau, and its name is now affixed to the whole melancholy story and place. I shall relate only one more incident : — A party of eleven travellers from Berne, belonging to the most distinguished families there, arrived at Arth on the 2nd of September, and set off on foot for the Righi a few minutes before the catastrophe.
الصفحة 236 - ... peals of thunder. At other times some portion of the vast field of snow, or rather, snowy ice, gliding gently away, exposed to view a new surface of purer white than the first, and the cast-off drapery gathering in long folds...
الصفحة 556 - Voltaire's vivacity at last turned to downright anger ; his eyes flashed fire whenever they met the benign and placid countenance of the quaker, and the dispute...
الصفحة 184 - Francisca was not far off, a farther search led to her release also, but in such a state, that her life was despaired of; she was blind for some days, and remained subject to convulsive fits of terror. It appeared that the house, or themselves at least, had been carried down about one thousand five hundred feet from where it stood before.