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Neuchatel (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 11
uch an adventure. Certainly, unless induced by some powerful scientific motive, I should not advise any one to follow my example. On this perilous journey he traced the laminated structure to a depth of eighty feet, and even beyond, though with less distinctness. The summer closed with their famous ascent of the Jungfrau. The party consisted of twelve persons: Agassiz, Desor, Forbes, Heath, and two travelers who had begged to join them,—M. de Chatelier, of Nantes, and M. de Pury, of Neuchatel, a former pupil of Agassiz. The other six were guides; four beside their old and tried friends, Jacob Leuthold and Johann Wahren. They left the hospice of the Grimsel on the 27th of August, at four o'clock in the morning. Crossing the Col of the Oberaar they descended to the snowy plateau which feeds the Viescher glacier. In this grand amphitheatre, walled in by the peaks of the Viescherhorner, they rested for their midday meal. In crossing these fields of snow, while walking with per
Glasgow (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
modeled by the ice. Agassiz had hardly returned from the Alps when he started for England. He had long believed that the Highlands of Scotland, the hilly Lake Country of England, and the mountains of Wales and Ireland, would present the same phenomena as the valleys of the Alps. Dr. Buckland had offered to be his guide in this search after glacier tracks, as he had formerly been in the hunt after fossil fishes in Great Britain. When, therefore, the meeting of the British Association at Glasgow, at which they were both present, was over, they started together for the Highlands. In a lecture delivered by Agassiz, at his summer school at Penikese, a few months before his death, he recurred to this journey with the enthusiasm of a young man. Recalling the scientific isolation in which he then stood, opposed as he was to all the prominent geologists of the day, he said: Among the older naturalists, only one stood by me. Dr. Buckland, Dean of Westminster, who had come to Switzerland
Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 11
e was to all the prominent geologists of the day, he said: Among the older naturalists, only one stood by me. Dr. Buckland, Dean of Westminster, who had come to Switzerland at my urgent request for the express purpose of seeing my evidence, and who had been fully convinced of the ancient extension of ice there, consented to accompahe mountains of Scotland, Wales, and the north of England, the valleys were in many instances traversed by terminal moraines and bordered by lateral ones, as in Switzerland. Nor were any of the accompanying phenomena wanting. The characteristic traces left by the ice, as well known to him now as the track of the game to the huntestribution, and that the drift material and the erratic boulders, scattered over the whole country, were due to exactly the same causes as the like phenomena in Switzerland. On the 4th of November, 1840, he read a paper before the Geological Society of London, giving a summary of the scientific results of their excursion, followed
Munich (Bavaria, Germany) (search for this): chapter 11
nd independent researches it is unnecessary to refer to them here. M. Escher de la Linth took also an active part in the work of the later summer. To his working corps Agassiz had added the foreman of M. Kahli, an engineer at Bienne, to whom he had confided his plans for the summer, and who furnished him with a skilled workman to direct the boring operations, assist in measurements, etc. The artist of this year was M. Jaques Burkhardt, a personal friend of Agassiz, and his fellow-student at Munich, where he had spent some time at the school of art. As a draughtsman he was subsequently associated with Agassiz in his work at various times, and when they both settled in America Mr. Burkhardt became a permanent member of Agassiz's household, accompanied him on his journeys, and remained with him in relations of uninterrupted and affectionate regard till his own death in 1867. He was a loyal friend and a warm-hearted man, with a thread of humor running through his dry good sense, which m
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 11
ell you anything of my own poor and superannuated works? The sixth volume is wanting to my Geography of the Fifteenth Century (Examen Critique). It will appear this summer. I am also printing the second volume of a new work to be entitled Central Asia. It is not a second edition of Asiatic Fragments, but a new and wholly different work. The thirty-five sheets of the last volume are printed, but the two volumes will only be issued together. You can judge of the difficulty of printing at Paris and correcting proofs here,—at Poretz or at Toplitz. I am just now beginning to print the first number of my physics of the world, under the title of Cosmos: in German, Ideen zur einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. It is in no sense a reproduction of the lectures I gave here. The subject is the same, but the presentation does not at all recall the form of a popular course. As a book, it has a somewhat graver and more elevated style. A spoken book is always a poor book, just as lectures r
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
work on the glacier. ascent of the Strahleck and the Siedelhorn. visit to England. search for glacial remains in great Britain. Roads of Glen Roy. views of English naturalists concerning Agassiz's glacial theory. letter from Humboldt. wintefered to be his guide in this search after glacier tracks, as he had formerly been in the hunt after fossil fishes in Great Britain. When, therefore, the meeting of the British Association at Glasgow, at which they were both present, was over, theyd who had been fully convinced of the ancient extension of ice there, consented to accompany me on my glacier hunt in Great Britain. We went first to the Highlands of Scotland, and it is one of the delightful recollections of my life that as we appying the western ranges of the Grampian Hills. He returned from his tour satisfied that the mountainous districts of Great Britain had all been centres of glacial distribution, and that the drift material and the erratic boulders, scattered over th
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 11
e rough, angular rock which had never been modeled by the ice. Agassiz had hardly returned from the Alps when he started for England. He had long believed that the Highlands of Scotland, the hilly Lake Country of England, and the mountains of Wales and Ireland, would present the same phenomena as the valleys of the Alps. Dr. Buckland had offered to be his guide in this search after glacier tracks, as he had formerly been in the hunt after fossil fishes in Great Britain. When, therefore, thd our first traces of glaciers; and, as the stage entered the valley, we actually drove over an ancient terminal moraine, which spanned the opening of the valley. In short, Agassiz found, as he had anticipated, that in the mountains of Scotland, Wales, and the north of England, the valleys were in many instances traversed by terminal moraines and bordered by lateral ones, as in Switzerland. Nor were any of the accompanying phenomena wanting. The characteristic traces left by the ice, as well
Glen Roy (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rn. visit to England. search for glacial remains in great Britain. Roads of Glen Roy. views of English naturalists concerning Agassiz's glacial theory. letter frd with what he already knew of glacial action. He visited the famous roads of Glen Roy in the Grampian Hills, where so many geologists had broken a lance in defense , of ancient ocean-levels and sea-beaches, formed at a time when they believed Glen Roy and the adjoining valleys to have been so many fiords and estuaries. To Agassdinburgh New Philosophical Journal, October, 1842, accompanied by a map of the Glen Roy region, and also an article entitled Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, in Scotland, Glen Roy, in Scotland, in the second volume of Agassiz's Geological Sketches. The glacial action in the whole neighborhood was such as to leave no doubt in the mind of Agassiz that Glen RoGlen Roy and the adjoining glens, or valleys, had been the drainage-bed for the many glaciers formerly occupying the western ranges of the Grampian Hills. He returned from
Nantes (France) (search for this): chapter 11
should not have started on such an adventure. Certainly, unless induced by some powerful scientific motive, I should not advise any one to follow my example. On this perilous journey he traced the laminated structure to a depth of eighty feet, and even beyond, though with less distinctness. The summer closed with their famous ascent of the Jungfrau. The party consisted of twelve persons: Agassiz, Desor, Forbes, Heath, and two travelers who had begged to join them,—M. de Chatelier, of Nantes, and M. de Pury, of Neuchatel, a former pupil of Agassiz. The other six were guides; four beside their old and tried friends, Jacob Leuthold and Johann Wahren. They left the hospice of the Grimsel on the 27th of August, at four o'clock in the morning. Crossing the Col of the Oberaar they descended to the snowy plateau which feeds the Viescher glacier. In this grand amphitheatre, walled in by the peaks of the Viescherhorner, they rested for their midday meal. In crossing these fields of
Biel (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 11
, invited as his guest, during part of the season, the distinguished physicist, Professor James D. Forbes, of Edinburgh, who brought with him his friend, Mr. Heath, of Cambridge. As the impressions of Mr. Forbes were only made known in connection with his own later and independent researches it is unnecessary to refer to them here. M. Escher de la Linth took also an active part in the work of the later summer. To his working corps Agassiz had added the foreman of M. Kahli, an engineer at Bienne, to whom he had confided his plans for the summer, and who furnished him with a skilled workman to direct the boring operations, assist in measurements, etc. The artist of this year was M. Jaques Burkhardt, a personal friend of Agassiz, and his fellow-student at Munich, where he had spent some time at the school of art. As a draughtsman he was subsequently associated with Agassiz in his work at various times, and when they both settled in America Mr. Burkhardt became a permanent member of Ag
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