Verwandte Artikel zu The Hunting Grounds of the Old World
Zu dieser ISBN ist aktuell kein Angebot verfügbar.
Reseña del editor
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. Circassia, continued.--The Ascent Of Mount EL-BRUZ. Forest scenery.--The first halt.--A glacier.--A beautiful panorama.--Sunrise.--A laramergeier slain.--Glacier travelling.--Eternal snow.--Avalanches.--The lower summit attained.--Our exultation.--A description of the higher summit.--The impossibility of reaching it.--Grand scenery.--Intense glare.--The descent commenced.--A sudden death.--Kuchuc's last resting-place.--Fatiguing fag.--The bivouac in the pineforest.--An ibex killed.--Return.--Finale. fTTHE forest glowed with the most vivid autumn tints; the foliage of the different trees exhibiting every shade, from the brightest orange to the deepest red; and contrasted strangely with the peculiarly rich colouring of masses of rocks here and there intermingled, forming a picture, of Nature's painting, which surpassed all the efforts of an artist to depict. Ferns nearly six feet in height, and of a species I had not previously seen, grew in the greatest profusion, whilst indigenous myrtle, box, laurel, rhododendron, and gigantic heath-bushes, grew in the greatest profusion on every side. The ground was carpeted with the most exquisitely beautiful flowers, amongst which I noticed bracken (Pteris aquilind) of a deep orange colour, blue, purple, and white monkshood, heath-bells, columbine, anemones, forget-me-nots, pansies, ranunculi, violets, and a delicate-looking creeper with scarlet bloom, which grew amid the rocks, most of which were covered with mosses of every hue and shade. After several hours' severe toil, the appearance of the forest became very much changed; the oak, beech, sycamore, poplar, walnut, chesnut, ash, birch, and other trees of the plains, giving place to lofty pines, covered with many-coloured lichen, larch, and gigantic ced...
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
(Keine Angebote verfügbar)
Buch Finden: Kaufgesuch aufgebenSie finden Ihr gewünschtes Buch nicht? Wir suchen weiter für Sie. Sobald einer unserer Buchverkäufer das Buch bei AbeBooks anbietet, werden wir Sie informieren!
Kaufgesuch aufgeben
