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It bore records of over-lubrication, of struggles with stiff outer covers, of rain and mud that bird-lime type of mud peculiar to French military roads in the Alpes Maritimes while a zealous detective might have found traces of the black and greasy deposit that collects on the door handles and side rails of P. L. M. railway carriages.
M. de Saussure, in his second volume of Voyages dans les Alpes, gives the strongest confirmation to the theory of the gradual degradation of mountains by the means of rain.
He got up from his chair, put down his book, and was half-way across the room when the door opened and Jack Glover came in, followed by the detective. It was the Frenchman who spoke. "M'sieur Briggerland, I have a warrant from the Préfect of the Alpes Maritimes for your arrest." "My arrest?" spluttered the dark man, his teeth chattering. "What what is the charge?"
It was the Cornice Road that he followed the broad white road that skirts the sea at the foot of the Alpes Maritimes. As far as Monte Carlo, he had walked it alone many the time. But he had never walked it with her, so it was a new road. It was a new world too, and as far as he was concerned there was no war.
This celebrated, but mistaken and unfortunate woman, has thrown into her narrative much information on the manners of the Swiss, anecdotes of Lavater, &c. besides giving a most lively account of her visit to the glaciers. Descriptions des Alpes Grecques et Cottiennes. Par Beaumont. 2 vols. 4to.
"I will not dwell on the effects of the torrents. For sixty years they have been too often depicted to require to be further discussed, but it is important to show that their ravages are daily extending the range of devastation. Ladoucette, Histoire, etc., des Hautes Alpes, p. 354.
Ile here skip ore my mountains reaching skyes, Whether Pyrenean, or the Alpes, both lyes On either side the country of the Gaules Strong forts, from Spanish and Italian brawles, And huge great Taurus longer then the rest, Dividing great Armenia from the least; And Hemus, whose steep sides none foot upon, But farewell all for dear mount Helicon, And wondrous high Olimpus, of such fame, That heav'n itself was oft call'd by that name.
He took the greatest pains over his catalogues, and wrote elaborate accounts of the various minerals in a shorthand he invented out of Greek letters and crystal forms. Grafted on this mineralogy, and stimulated by the Swiss tour, was a new interest in physical geology, which his father so far approved as to give him Saussure's "Voyages dans les Alpes" for his birthday in 1834.
«Enfin toute cette montagne, une des plus hautes des Alpes Poenines, qui conserve des neiges et de glaces permanentes, est composée en général de pierres et de roches schisteuses, dont les couches et les lits sont plus on moins sensibles et inclinés, et d'une grande dureté.
"What am I thinking about?" he demanded. Then he rose, paid his bill, and departed. He turned back to his lodgings. At Bollo's Wine Shop he hesitated. A knot of people stood at the entrance of the Hôtel des Alpes Maritimes, and a curious wagon was drawn up to the curb. He stopped a child. "What is the trouble?" he inquired. The girl raised a pair of mournful eyes to him.
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