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Of course, the Supreme Being is pleased to see people following the worthiest object; and the question is, What is the worthiest?" I did not like to hear Mr. De Saussure's tongue touch themes where it was not at home. The conversation was too serious for light handling; but I could not get out of it. "You will find that my answer includes all," I said.
"Thank you," I said earnestly. "But indeed, I should be more pleased to have you follow your own sense of right than any notion of another, even of myself." "You are not like any other woman I ever saw," he said smiling. "Do you know, they all have a passion for command? There are De Saussure's mother and sisters, they do not leave him a moment's peace, because he is not at home fighting."
De Saussure's men imagined that these strings were arranged with a view to blow up the guns the moment any one attempted to interfere with them, and each soldier, as he passed, avoided the supposed danger. The South Carolina officers, at this period, spent much of their time in discussing military problems.
Two beasts of burden were sufficient to carry our provision, our instruments, and the paper necessary to dry our plants. One chest contained a sextant, a dipping-needle, an apparatus to determine the magnetic variation, a few thermometers, and Saussure's hygrometer.
I was silent, and hoped that Mr. De Saussure's friends might now perhaps get him away from Geneva at least. "You think with them, that he ought to go?" Hugh Marshall said presently with a shadow, I thought, on his words. "I would not add one more to the war," I answered. "Your mother does not think so." "No." "Mrs.
De Saussure's encircling arm, I removed myself to the other side of the boat and drew my shawl round me. I do not know what significance was in my action, but mamma said, "Nonsense!" "I have not offended, have I?" said Mr. De Saussure. "Remember, I had liberty." "Mamma," I said, "if you will sit a little further that way, you will restore the balance of the boat."
Here on the contrary, there being no general inclination of the strata to direct the formation of the peaks, they are found without any such order. I shall give it in M. de Saussure's own words.
To this the explorers objected, that the mound contained many caves, but' only in this particular fissure was any ice found. Dr. Robinson, astronomer at Armagh, endeavoured to explain the matter by referring to De Saussure's explanation of the phenomena of cold caves in Italy and elsewhere; but this, too, was considered unsatisfactory.
In the forty-ninth volume of the Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserl. Boué on the geology of Servia. Many of the passages referred to have nothing to do with ice-caves, as, for instance, the sections of De Saussure's book describing his observations of 'cold caves', or the account of the mass of ice and snow from which the river Jumna springs, for which Dr. Dr.
We therefore have occasion for a mean, by which the extreme of those alpine summits shall be generalised or connected with our low inclined plains; and, on this occasion, I will give M. de Saussure's most excellent description of the Breven.
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