 But when all these admissions in favour of Switzerland are made, the Himalaya still remain unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even a faint...  Indian pictures - Page 173by William Urwick - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Wilson - 1875 - 518 pages
...unsurpassed, and even un approached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the nightly action of frost, and... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1875 - 552 pages
...unsurpassed, and even un approached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the nightly action of frost, and... | |
 | 1875 - 1026 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...desolation and appalling sublimity of many of the Himáliyan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the... | |
 | 1875 - 832 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...desolation and appalling sublimity of many of the Himáliyan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pages
...recompense sufficient for all you have gone through. " There is nothing in the Alps," writes Mr Wilson, " which can afford even a faint idea of the savage desolation...appalling sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes." And if you have any dash of romance in your nature — and otherwise you will scarcely have ventured... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1877 - 444 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...mountains have very recently come shattering down." This constant action of the elements sometimes carves the sides of the mountains into castellated forms,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1877 - 446 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...scarred and riven by the nightly action of frost and th& midday floods from melting snow. In almost every valley we iee places where whole peaks or sides... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - 1886 - 476 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...desolation and appalling sublimity of many of the Himaliyan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the nightly... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1902 - 354 pages
...unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even...sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes. Nowhere, also, have the faces of the mountains been so scarred and riven by the nightly action of frost, and... | |
 | 1876 - 810 pages
...recompense sufficient for ah' you have gone through. " There is nothing in the Alps," writes Mr. Wilson, " which can afford even a faint idea of the savage desolation...appalling sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes." And if you have any dash of romance in your nature — and otherwise you will scarcely have ventured... | |
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