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"You seem to say, that is an insignificant way of life," Hugh Marshall added. "We'll try for something better to-morrow," said De Saussure. "We have laid a plan to go to see the lake of Annecy, Miss Randolph, if we can secure your company and approbation.
"You hesitate," said he. "You shall command me, Daisy. I will go instantly, hard as it would be, and give all my power to furthering the war at home; or, if you bid me, I will keep out of it, which would be harder still, were you not here instead of there. Speak, won't you, -a good word for me?" "You must do nothing at my command, Mr. de Saussure," I said.
De Saussure's theory, as developed by M. Pictet, was no doubt satisfactory, so far as it was used to account for the phenomenon of 'cold-caves, but it seems to be insufficient as an explanation of the existence of large masses of subterranean ice; of which, by the way, De Saussure must have been entirely ignorant, for he makes no allusion to such ice, and the temperatures of the coldest of his caves were considerably above the freezing point.
Vitaliano Donati, who was sent from Turin to examine this phenomenon, says in his letter, which M. de Saussure transcribes, that the great snows, which fell that year in Savoy, increasing the operation of some lakes, the waters of which continually undermined this mountain, occasioned the fall of three millions of cubic toises of rock.
"But at Bull Run rates 'sixty pieces of splendid cannon' taken, as Mr. Davis says, and how many killed and prisoners? the mud-sills will not be able to keep it up very long. Absurd! to think that those Northern shopkeepers could make head against a few dozen Southern swords." "There were only a few dozen swords at Manasses," said De Saussure. "Eighteen thousand, Mr.
He states, too, that when the strength of the current is diminished, its temperature is increased; a fact which all observations of the cold currents in caves, especially those made with so much care by M. Saussure, abundantly establish.
It may be proper to see the description of a calcareous alpine mountain. M. de Saussure gives us the following observations concerning a mountain of this kind in the middle of the Alps, where the water divides in running different ways towards the sea.
"There are a few thousand men in the way," said my father; "and I think they are not all cowards." "They will never stand before our rifles," said De Saussure. "Our boys will mow them down like grass," said Ransom. "And in New Orleans the fever will take care of them. How soon, mother, will the fever be there?"
It is impossible to be more impartial than M. de Saussure has proved himself to be on this occasion, or to reason more in the manner in which every philosopher ought to reason on all occasions. But to see the full value of this author's impartiality, notwithstanding of his system, let us follow him in the second volume of Voyages dans les Alpes. It is in chap.
"Which of them must I like a little more than very well, Daisy?" "Mamma? " "Whoever owns and possesses you, I should wish to like very much. Which is it to be, Daisy?" "Neither of these gentlemen, mamma." "Did De Saussure propose to you yesterday?" "Yes." "What did you say to him?" "I made him understand that he was nothing to me." "He is something to me," said mamma.
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