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Saturday review28.08.1858
  • Datum
    Samstag, 28. August 1858
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    London
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    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] authentic information of another “Own Correspondent” of the Times who has turned up so opportunely in the Utah valley. Perhaps the most remarkable fact ascertained is that the settled Mormon population does not exceed 35,000 persons; [...]
[...] which entry in the next column answers to the station. Thus, train No. 19 leaves London at 11:45; it gets on pretty well till it reaches Rugby; but then comes the Trent Valley line, as to which its doings are not represented by mere dots, but by a zigzag [...]
[...] Bletchley at 7:25. The next entry is Dudley—12'o-with a cross reference to page Ioo. From Rugby we go down the Trent Valley, which takes us to Stafford, then we go back to Rugby, and get on to Birmingham and Wolverhampton, though brackets on opposite sides of the names—one with “Stour Valley” on it, [...]
[...] able height, and then rolled down like a river along the flanks of the mountain towards the valley of the Rhone. On entering the valley it crossed a precipitous rock barrier, down, which it poured like a cataract; but long before it reached the bottom it [...]
[...] of this may be mentioned by way of example. The most important feature for the restoration of the ancient Jerusalem is undoubtedly the Valley of the Cheese-makers, described by Josephus as traversing the city, and separating the Upper from the Lower Market. This valley has been drawn by [...]
[...] bankment, from the Jaffa Gate on the west to the Temple Close on the east, and then at right angles to its former course, southward, to the Pool of Siloam and the Valley Ben Hinnom. Now the very existence of the upper portion of this valley—all traces of which, if they ever existed, have certainly been long [...]
[...] whole of its west side, and runs up in a north-westerly direction to, the Damascus Gate. Now the advocates of the invisible valley, while accounting for its disappearance by the ac [...]
[...] Jerusalem—of course hesitate to admit the claims of its rival to that importance which the counter-theory demands for it, as cº, the valley of the interior of Jerusalem. And although it is true that the street which traverses its whole length is called by the natives el Wäd, [...]
[...] effaced—being concealed by the long-continued accumulation of rubbish;" and he is forced to imagine that the still well marked valley, from the north, tº: by the sewer, is passed over without notice by Josephus in his minute description of the physical distribution of the terrain of the city. Numerous [...]
[...] lead or brass with which it was formerly encased;” while he looks for Solomon's Pool—here actually before his eyes—under the débris in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where, of course, he fancies that he finds traces of it (pp. 151, 303). [...]
Saturday review19.11.1870
  • Datum
    Samstag, 19. November 1870
  • Erschienen
    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] falsehood. Whether opaque colour be here present is a trivial matter compared with the question whether a hill has not been thrust into the midst of the Valley of Jehoshaphat which has no existence whatever. The writer, who isnows Jerusalem well, could with difficulty in this drawing identify a single point save [...]
[...] Nevada mountain, situated in the county of Mariposa, in the State aforesaid, and the head-waters of the Merced River, and known as the Yosemite Valley, with its branches and spurs, in estimated length fifteen miles, and in average width one mile back from the precipice on each side of the valley,” to be held by the [...]
[...] * The Posemite Guide-book: a Description of the Posemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sier- Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California. By J. D. Whitney, State Geologist. Published by Authority of the Legis [...]
[...] selected from those executed for the author's Geology of Cali Ozºza. f The real name of this remarkable valley seems to be uncertain, both in its origin and its orthography. By the aboriginal Indians it was known as Ahwahnee or Auwoni. It is only of late years [...]
[...] alls in pronunciation), meaning “grizzly bear.” This may very probably have been the name of a chief, or it may have been given to the valley by bands of Indians driven out by the whites in 1851. The native denizens of the valley and its neighbourhood are said to have been a mixed race made u [...]
[...] “Bridal Veil” Fall; Totokónula (the towering rock now called “El Capitan”), imitated, say the natives, from the cry of the crane, which in winter enters the valley by flying over that rock; Loya, the “Sentinel” peak; Tululowehäck, the cañon of the South Fork of the Merced, called the Illilouette in the Californian [...]
[...] débris, the water rushes down in a series of cascades for a down ward distance of 3oo feet more. Its base being concealed by the trees of the valley, the effect of the fall is as though it were over 90o feet in vertical º: The “Virgin's Tears,” directly facing it across the valley, makes also a fine fall of over 1,000 feet, in [...]
[...] part of the range, are most abundant and defined about the heads of Kern and King's Rivers in the region above the Yosemite, from the valleys in º the Merced, San Joaquin, and Tuolumne take their rise. Of these ice masses the most striking must have been that which came down the valley of the Tuolumne, above thirty [...]
[...] of Walker, Pyramid, and the other lakes on that side of the Sierra. No doubt, as Mr. Whitney argues with reason, at that time the now arid valleys of the Nevada were beautiful inland seas, which filled the spaces between the lofty parallel ridges by which that State is traversed:— [...]
[...] unprovided with any exact parallel in nature. This is the sub sidence, from some unknown cause, of the limited area forming the Yosemite; the bottom of the valley sinking down to an indeter minate depth, owing to its support being somehow withdrawn from underneath during some of those convulsive oscillations [...]
Saturday review22.09.1860
  • Datum
    Samstag, 22. September 1860
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    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] headdresses of many of the native women on a Sunday giving them a resemblance to cherubs whose wings are in mourning, mais qui ont de quoi. Across the meadows, down in the valley, half hid among apple and walnut trees, gleams the many-gabled village of Oberweiler, where the Baden Government maintains [...]
[...] fifty feet in height. It was in a fine summer afternoon that we walked up this valley by the side of a tumbling stream. On either hand the crumbling hills of granite and gneiss speak strongly of decay, and every side valley has that peculiar appearance which tells the geo [...]
[...] to the North Sea, through the unnumbered islands that lie between Baden and France. When satisfied with gazing, we proceeded to examine the deep rocky valleys scooped in the sides of the mountain. Patches of snow lay here and there on the slopes at the upper ends of the valleys, hinting that a change in [...]
[...] southerly direction to the Rhine, which the river Alb enters at Albruck, about forty miles below the Rhine-falls at Schaffhausen. Tramping along the road that winds down the valley, we passed through the flourishing villages of Ober, and Nieder Menzensch wand, lying among vivid green meadows, the mountains on [...]
[...] peaks, converting all their ravishing panoramas into so many monotonous abysses of cold white steam. Drizzle and inunda tions fill the valleys—sulky and damp pedestrians fill the hotels. Back along the railways are º of despairing demi semi-Alpinists, whose modest powers of enjoyment are not worthy [...]
[...] * The Eagle's Nest in the Valley of Sirt, together with some Ercursions among the Great Glaciers. By A. Wills. London: Longmans. 1869, [...]
[...] matter of mountains, and hopes to persuade some of these punc tilious devotees that there is †: worth seeing in Northern Savoy out of sight of Chamounix. The little Valley of Sixt, whose cause he especially pleads, lies just two ridges north of the Valley of Chamounix, on the western slopes of the Buet. The [...]
[...] corner of the Alps so well, ought to be an ample voucher. The book, which is full of descriptions almost as warm of the scenery by which this happy valley is surrounded, is published avowedly for the purpose of drawing into it some portion of the throngs that yearly stream into the desolate and rugged valley of Cha [...]
[...] enjoyments that this agreeable little collection of verbal land scapes has been written. His intense admiration has induced the author to become a landowner in the Valley of Sixt, and he confesses to a neighbourly desire to divert, for the benefit of its [...]
[...] struggling population, a little English gold from the plethoric prosperity of Chamounix guides and hotels. During the present season, when the lower Alpine valleys have consisted more of water than of anything else, there have been comparatively few visitors to divert. The unfortunate inhabitants of Sixt suffered [...]
Saturday review06.03.1875
  • Datum
    Samstag, 06. März 1875
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    London
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    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] Raffaelle forsook this his dwelling among the Apennines; he re turned once—perhaps twice—and that for a brief space only, and then quitted for ever the bleak mountains for the sunny valley of the Arno and the seven hills on the Tiber. [...]
[...] colleague Mr. J. L. Warren—prematurely cut off in a career of much promise—to note certain definite relations between fissures or valleys in general and the phenomena of shrinkage. Without absolutely discarding the theories of subaerialists, they came to the conclusion that denudants of various classes must [...]
[...] fissures which primarily determined the courses in which the accumulating waters should flow, and in the end were the means of arranging the present distribution and set of valleys. Only in conjunction with these shrinkage fissures can any denudant work with effect. Not that all fault lines form valleys. On the [...]
[...] continuous denudation can be detected. The object of Mr. Kinahan's work is to bring together facts show ing that, in general, valleys originate with faults or breaks in the strata, and that a valley or hollow could seldom have been carved out unless there were cracks, minor joints, or other shrinkage fissures, [...]
[...] * Valleys, and their relation to Fissures, Fractures, and Faults. By G. H. Kinahan, M.R.I.A., F.R.G.S.I., &c., of H. M. Geological Survey. London: Trübner & Co. 1875. [...]
[...] processes whereby in the larger operations of nature fissures, under the action of combined or successive denudants, result in valley or lake systems. An abandoned limestone quarry affords an excellent study of joint lines thus gradually opening, where sheets of rock have been un [...]
[...] strata considerable faults might exist without being observed. And this is the more probable from the fact of rocks sometimes coming down one side of a valley, whilst there are none on the other side. Moreover, all the valleys which extend northward and southward are in more or less parallel systems, in association with ruling faults [...]
[...] places, and Galway Bay having been of old named Lough Lurgan. Where the rocks were softer, long narrow bays may have been ex cavated by the action of the sea, eventually elongating into valleys; the marine action which we now see shaping the lower ends of those valleys being but the present continuation of that by which [...]
[...] the marine action which we now see shaping the lower ends of those valleys being but the present continuation of that by which the upper parts of the valleys were formed. The transverse valleys may also have been cut by marine action, finding out the softer places or following breaks and joints in the strata. Cork [...]
[...] and fifty feet lower than at present, which is proved by the raised beaches, terraces, and the like, such as those of Derrinkee in the Erriff river valley, in Glenanane, and Inishbarna. The sea would then, by means of tidal waves and currents, do more work than now. Since it retired, the rivers which now occupy the valleys [...]
Saturday review10.07.1869
  • Datum
    Samstag, 10. Juli 1869
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    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] sufficiently well known. But in the wide extent of these hills there are many unknown spots of equal beauty with these. IIow few English tourists explore the valley of the Lunel and yet there is none more noble among English valleys, and none of which the tributary streams are finer. Travelling by rail to the Lakes, you [...]
[...] down a precipice of some thirty feet, making a very picturesque fall. The road avoids this glen, and takes a short cut down a side valley to Muker; but the longer route is much to be preferred by all who have time, and who do not object to rather a scrambling ath. [...]
[...] be seen which is generally overlooked. Few of those who go' to see the rocks and caverns at Castleton penetrate into the upland valleys which lie to the north. There are not in these any mountain forms so striking as those of Ingleborough and Penyghent, nor is there any great abundance of waterfalls, but [...]
[...] Penyghent, nor is there any great abundance of waterfalls, but the moorlands are yet wilder than those of Yorkshire, and the edges with which they overhang the valleys bolder and rockier. Foremost among these is Fairhead Naze at the head of Ashopdale, a massive promontory that stands out from the range behind, and [...]
[...] Foremost among these is Fairhead Naze at the head of Ashopdale, a massive promontory that stands out from the range behind, and is seen from the whole lower part of the valley, but is hidden as you approach it, and then reappears with almost startling effect a little above the Snake Inn. The valley of the Ashop is called [...]
[...] intricate involutions. High up among the hills, again, there are great scatterings of rock and cliff here and there, such as Alport Castles, in the valley of the Alport, which joins the Ashop from the north ; here there has evidently been at some remote time a slip in the mountain side, and down between the [...]
[...] black Lilberries and the red berries of the mountain ash. South of Ashopdale, and separated from it by the loftiest and wildest of these ridges, lies Edale, a valley some seven or eight miles long, quite shut in by steep hills; the head of it, near the haullet of [...]
[...] enables the chances of dissolution or sunstroke in the “Orient” to be weighed against those of the most fiery of Western prairies. From Allahabad the railway whirled our party down the valley of the Ganges to the capital, leaving leisure, however, by the way for a summary of Indian mythology, history, and economics, from [...]
[...] glories of his native land who touched the shore of San Francisco and did not make the slight detour of 150 miles to the south-east which brings him to the “big trees” and the Yosemite valley. Of the former of these wonders of the world, Londoners have of late lost the opportunity of judging which they had prior to [...]
[...] Kensington. r. Coffin's powers of description are exhausted upon these truly sublime monuments of nature's grandeur. The vast cones of granite that border the valley have taken their names from a fancied resemblance to the Domes of a cathedral or mosque. But what is the architecture of Damascus or Stamboul to this [...]
Saturday review02.09.1865
  • Datum
    Samstag, 02. September 1865
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    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] bore that is prevalent on travellers' faces, as they come and go in dusty carriages or on hard-mouthed mules, betrays the frequent disappointment of those who pass through the celebrated valley. In truth, the mistakes of sight-seeing are nowhere more glaring than at Chamouny. The average two days' visitingeniously com [...]
[...] but we predict for Chamouny, rightly understood, a brilliant future. Once free from the stupidities of its present management, we anticipate for the grand stern valley more success than is pos sible for Zermatt in the impoverished &. or than is likely for the well-worked toulist haunts in Bern. [...]
[...] the well-worked toulist haunts in Bern. The commune of Chamouny extends some fifteen miles along the upper end of the valley, from the Glacier des Bossons to the Col de Balme. It includes several villages, which, besides minor jealousies of one another, unite in supreme jealousy of the [...]
[...] give hopes of any immediate gain from Parisian inspirations; but we believe that any improvements proposed by the proprietors of the valley would be j. seconded by §. authority. A new road is being slowly made that will admit of heavy traffic, between Sallenches and Chamouny, and the mule paths used by travellers [...]
[...] possible to be neutralized by a less hampered intercourse with their visitors. To this end the whole machinery of travel in the valley requires to be set in order. Though recently made a chef-lieu de canton, and the station of some minor French authorities, the material interests of the commune are in the hands [...]
[...] and broken bridges on the way to their village are satisfactory to the char proprietors of Argentières. At all events the better carriages that ply further down the valley cannot venture any interference with their gains. In the same spirit, the Chamouny drivers, chuckle over the bad hills that separate them from [...]
[...] travelling, and they return next day to Geneva by, the same machine, that has gripped them from the first. This way of seeing their valley does not profit even the guides of Cha mouny. So many are admitted into their fraternity that their average earnings are but two hundred francs a year. The hotels [...]
[...] instances he persuaded the hotel proprietors to allow their butcher to sell him meat. Civilized life was laborious, yet, instead of becoming tired of the long stern valley, its gran [...]
[...] against their interest to throw impediments in the way of strangers who claim their right to enjoy as they choose one of the most remarkable among accessible Alpine valleys. [...]
[...] form the old name of the mountain, Nida or Netha, is one which the natives are jealous of pointing out. In times of trouble the valley of Nida has been a place of refuge for the Christians of the valleys; and when Captain Spratt tried to procure a guide to it, a two hours' debate was held under the olive trees of the nearest [...]
Saturday review30.11.1867
  • Datum
    Samstag, 30. November 1867
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    London
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    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] gained much. One winter expedition succeeded in surveying the long central range of the country; a second traversed the great plains on either side, the Jordan valley and Philistia. More than 2,000 square miles, in fact, have been accurately surveyed; more [...]
[...] or of Christ, buried as it is beneath the wreck of sieges and of time. The whole of the western side of the great eastern ravine, the valley of Jehosaphat, the whole southern front of Moriah and of Zion, are covered with huge heaps of débris as soft and loose as on the day when they were shot over. The central valley of [...]
[...] running northward, however, divides its mass into two elevations; the western, Zion, overlooking its Eastern rival of Moriah ; and with these two heights, and with the valley between them, the researches of the Exploration Fund have been as yet principally concerned. Zion is in effect the city of David, the site of the [...]
[...] concerned. Zion is in effect the city of David, the site of the palaces and tombs of the Kings; Moriah is the site of the Temple; the valley between, the valley of the Tyropoeon, probably the site of the lower trading town. The look of the whole is still the look which the dual termination of the Hebrew name is erhaps [...]
[...] the homes of the dead, dotted with sepulchres, and foul with the refuse of the capital. It is in this Tyropoeon valley which cleaves, as we have seen, the heart of Jerusalem, and along the southern front of the hill Moriah, where the site of the Temple is now occupied by the Mosque of [...]
[...] of from 170 to 180 feet, a curious justification of a passage of Josephus, in which he describes the dizziness with which the spectator looked down into the valley beneath. The whole rock must have been honeycombed with aqueducts, cisterns, channels, and passages; thirty feet beneath the vaults which have been [...]
[...] labourer that had shovelled the rich loam upon the delta of Lower Egypt. Upon these vast flats of fertile soil there can be no drainage except through soakage. The deep valley is therefore the receptacle not only for the water that oozes from its sides, but subterranean channels, bursting as landsprings from all parts of the walls of the valley, wash down the more [...]
[...] arrival on its bank at the bottom of the valley. The Arab name, “Bahr el Aswat” (black river) was well bestowed; it was the black mother of Egypt, #. carrying to her offspring the nourishment that had first formed the [...]
[...] Travelling in Mexico is less pleasant when once the valleys are left behind. Much of the soil of the higher ground “con sists of a barren white soil producing nothing but a ragged dried [...]
[...] the fissures in the rock. Naturally a few days' toilsome marching through such a country as this enhances the beauty of the towns in the valleys, usually embosomed in groves of trees, above which rise a multitude of domes and steeples that reminded Captain Elton of an Indian city. The produce of the country is [...]
Saturday review12.09.1868
  • Datum
    Samstag, 12. September 1868
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    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] ..". was to be found in great abundance down in Cumberland and Westmoreland. By the more remote lakes, like Buttermere and Hawes Water, and in the secluded valleys running up from the larger lakes, you would come upon square stuccoed houses, generally abominably ugly, where the nymph was mistress of the [...]
[...] immediate preparation will be made in India to operate with force when §. contingency arises. The railway to Peshawur is to be made instantly, the line down the Indus Valley is to be com leted, “the whole question of forts, arsenals, magazines, and epôts is now under earnest discussion.” . There are even hints [...]
[...] the sea without the dangers of its immediate neighbour hood. Fécamp then lies a little way inland. Two parallel ranges of hills run down to the sea, with a valley and a small stream between them, at the mouth of which the modern has been made. On the slope of the hills on the [...]
[...] between the two the Towy rushes foaming down a steep descent, at the bottom of which it meets one of its tributaries, the Pysg9twr. The valley of the Pysgotwr is very woody, and has bold hills on either side. Llanwrtid, again, is itself a very pretty place, and is now [...]
[...] by railway from Builth. The mountain valley above the wells has many of the characteristics of that of the Towy, but it is on the whole less remarkable. Yet it is well worth [...]
[...] extraordinary height. The coach road avoids this, and goes some distance round over the hills. But that which distinguishes the Usk valley is the range of wild moorland to the south, in which are the highest summits, and almost the only true mountains, of South Wales, the Brecknockshire Beacons. These, [...]
[...] Purddin. Here we enter upon the great coal district of Glamor ganshire, whose thousand furnaces have to a great extent spoiled the picturesqueness of its valleys. It must not be supposed that South Wales is in any part equal to the grandest scenery of North Wales. It has but few [...]
[...] people will be esteemed an advantage—namely, that it is not a tourist-visited country. The traveller in it feels something of the pleasure of a discoverer; he can look down upon a valley without the sense that it has been looked upon by thousands of tourists before him, and painted in a hundred academies [...]
[...] want of adventure or originality in our painters, that they should always haunt the same places, and no others? For instance, the valley of Festiniog lies but a short day's walk from Bettwsycoed, and to our mind is decidedly superior to it. We know nothing anywhere finer than the view from the [...]
[...] trees, from the banks of which the eye commands a full view of the northern mountains. As to the English lakes, it is our belief that the Lledr valley alone is visited by more painters in the course of the summer than the whole of Cumberland and West moreland. Yet surely the Lledr valley is not equal to Borrowdale [...]
Saturday review09.09.1871
  • Datum
    Samstag, 09. September 1871
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    London
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    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] obstacles to the still higher village of Laval, further than which it cannot be prosecuted. . The road gradually mounts, and the valley becomes narrower, being bounded by wooded hills on both sides, till the higher level is reached on which stands Tignes, the chief village. Here there is an inn, kept by the mayor of the [...]
[...] and so excursions which would make the fortune of guides and hotel keepers in other parts of the Alps remain unexplored and unknown. After Tignes the valley becomes a striking gorge, where the Isère is heard dashing and boiling in a chasm far below, while the road makers are endeavouring against severe difficulties and discourage [...]
[...] we had been brought down. It is unnecessary to describe the many hours of descent that followed, or the walk down the valley; it is sufficient that the inn at the baths of Ceresole, in Piedmont, was reached at dusk. Though the Savoyard dialect of the frontier is very barbarous [...]
[...] vocabulary, yet just here the political boundary coincides strictly with the linguistic; for the V. de Tignes is clearly French, while that of Locana is Italian. But the other valleys #. have their outlet to the north—Val Grisanche, Val de Rhêmes, Val Sava ranche, and Val de Cogne—are French in speech, like the [...]
[...] that at first hung over the higher mountains were gradually dispersed. For more than two hours we had to retrace our steps up the valley. In the bright morning light we saw the beauties which the hanging clouds and rain had before con cealed. The course of the Orco is here a prolonged series of [...]
[...] with fine pine forests on both sides, and high peaks frequently visible above the near hills. The villages are picturesquely placed high up the sides of the valley. At the chief one, called Val Savaranche, we stopped for the night, in a house to which all that we have said above applies pre-eminently. We afterwards learned [...]
[...] “King's road,” and therefore converted into a bridle-path, though of a º unstable nature in some parts. It ascends steeply the side of the valley, and ultimately reaches a dip in the great rocky barrier of which the northern end is the Grivola and the southern the Grand Paradis and the Nuvole Mountains. The Grand [...]
[...] Paradis has a height of about 13,300 feet; and this magnificent mountain, all pure white like the Weisshorn, forms the chief near feature of the view. The view into the valley in front was not less enticing. The descent was tolerably steep and rapid; and when the bottom of the valley was reached and Cogne a [...]
[...] Chamonix and Cormayeur, the Matterhorn to Zermatt, the Jung frau to Lauterbrunnen and the Wengernalp. Besides that, the valleys at the junction of which it stands are exquisitely beautiful, and the Becca di Nona and Mount Emilius command magnificent, lº unsurpassed, views. Nothing is needed to cause this [...]
[...] succeed in the Alpine region wherever they are tried. From Cogne the Val d'Aosta and the ordinary track of tourists is easily reached, either by the mule road down its exquisite valley, or by a pass not reaching into the snow region, but commanding mag nificent views of the Grivola, the Grand Paradis and other Graian [...]
Saturday review14.11.1874
  • Datum
    Samstag, 14. November 1874
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    London
  • Verbreitungsort(e)
    London
Anzahl der Treffer: 10
[...] became the inheritance of the house of Buccleugh. The com bat between the Scotts and the Beattisons in the fourth canto, by which one landed man was left, while the rest of the valley was lost and won for a bonny white horse, has aptly enough been [...]
[...] him at once to Cuddie Headligg and Jock Jabos, now elbowed out of their places by the Artful Dodger and Mr. Micawber. The Esk Valley may be roundly stated to be rather more than . miles in length. It begins, for our purpose, at Gilnockie, near the confluence of the Liddel, a place renowned for Johnnie [...]
[...] and conducts the wayfarer, through a district even more desolate, to Thirlestane and Ettrick, and eventually to St. Mary's Loch. Civilization advances slowly in these primitive valleys. Eskdale has its mail cart which goes backwards and forwards every work ing day in the week, but it is only during the last three years [...]
[...] on, the other, neither coercive measures nor inflammatory speeches will do any good. At any rate we believe that the immediate and total extinction of the red and the black grouse in these valleys would not enable the farmer to increase his flock by a couple of hoggets or a single ewe in the year. [...]
[...] spot to greet the return of those three youths who had gone out unknown, and had returned as the three Knights of Liddesdale. But another spot, ten miles higher up the valley than Burnfoot, is known as having witnessed, not the birth of administrators or admirals, but the death of a humbler person, whom any one of [...]
[...] and reverent congregation, what we may be quite sure was a forcible and appropriate address. With this we close our notice of the neglected }. Valley. Though the West-country Whigs were not untruthfully delineated in the History of Macaulay and the novels of Scott as a class distinguished for a rigid adherence to forms, an [...]
[...] filled their pockets, and are about to take measures for their annual hibernation. Englishmen have returned from Iceland and Sweden, from the Yosemite Valley and the Falls of Niagara, from “Jerusalem and Madagascar"; Bond Street once more echoes with the tread of boots still ruddy from the old red sandstone or [...]
[...] We need hardly say that the mountain views in the valley of Aosta, the valley of the rushing Dora and of its no less fast rush ing tributary the Buthier, are glorious beyond words. And the [...]
[...] scratched, and polished surfaces marks of the mechanical action of the stones and sand carried along by water currents. To the same causes are due the ravines and valleys met with in limestone districts. A ravine was even termed by M. Desnoyers “caverne à ciel ouvert.” Mr. Dawkins claims to have arrived independently [...]
[...] districts. A ravine was even termed by M. Desnoyers “caverne à ciel ouvert.” Mr. Dawkins claims to have arrived independently at the same conclusion. The open valley, he says, passes insen sibly into a ravine, and that into a cave. “The ravine is merely a cave which has lost its roof, and the valley is merely the result of [...]
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